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Multimodal Meaning (Admin Update 5)
Multimodal Meaning—using new media resources. Today’s learners need to be able to use digital media to juxtapose and link text, diagram, table, dataset, video documentation, audio recording and other media. Across all subject areas, meaning making and knowledge representations are supported and enhanced today by digital production skills and technologies.
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Video 3a: What's New About Digital Technologies?
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Video 3b: Multiliteracies and Synesthesia
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Multimodal Meaning in Scholar
All Levels of Participation: Make a comment below this update about the ways in which the multimodal affordances of new media can change the nature of learning. Respond to others' comments with @name.
Additional Introductory and Advanced Participation: Make an update introducing a multimodal meaning concept on the community page (not your personal page - because only peers will see that!). Define the concept and provide at least one example of the concept in practice. Be sure to add links or other references, and images or other media to illustrate your point. If possible, select a concept that nobody has addressed yet so we get a well-balanced view of multimodal meaning. Also, comment on at least three or four updates by other participants. Multimodal meaning concepts might include:
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Multiliteracies
- New Media
- Digital Media
- Multimodal knowledge representations
- Visual learning
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Video learning
- Simulations
- Learning games
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Suggest a subconcept in need of definition!
Multimodal and multimedia make a lot of difference the way we learn (and teach) with computers and Internet.
In my school days (60’s/70’s) we only used handwriting to present our school work and at the university we used typewriter. In my schooldays there were no photocopy machines, the reproduction of texts was made by typing stencils.
Tape recorders existed but we didn’t use them for school work. Teachers might use slide projection in lectures. Overhead projectors were used with (terrible) full written transparencies. Later on, Powerpoint was a useful tool to produce graphically acceptable transparencies.
Imagine, in a few decades, we have the possibility to compose our own images, to take photos and videos with our mobiles, to produce sound for our videos, an infinity of free tools that allow us to improve our presentations and enrich our reports and artifacts.
In a 5 minute tutorial we learn how to manipulate tools and devices.
A vast diversity of writing, drawing, sound recording, video editing, mind mapping, organizing and curating tools are available to create amazing works. I’m an enthusiast of all the amazing tools we can access for free.
The two videos eLearning Affordance 3: Multimodal Meaning, highlight the big shift in the capacity to produce artifacts in multi formats (text, image, sound, video, data) with affordable devices, accessible to the student.
Multimedia enhances learning and broadens meaning.
Traditional literacy was restricted to text, written format, nowadays we talk of multiliteracy, respecting the capacity to intertwine all formats in an artifact. New modes of representation are now accessible to any student or worker to present an outcome.
The reference to the old books of the 17th century that included prints from plates in different pages led me to relate that engraving techniques and more sophisticated mezzotint printmaking were greatly developed for this purpose at the time.