Multimodal & Digital Text (& expectations)

Multimodal -

• two or more modes to present information or create meaning

• multiple definitions of a word

• one way of doing something

• something with multiple colors

having to do with language (ex. spoken words & grammar)

• visual

• audio

• linguistic

• spatial

colors, lines, pictures (ex. illustrations & films)

• visual

• audio

• spatial

• sensory

audio -

• volume, pitch, and rhythm of music and sound effects

• things you can see

• distance, direction, and position of objects in space

• two or more modes to present information or create meaning

gestural

• movement, speed, & stillness in facial expressions & body language

• having to do with langauge

• where something is locates

• spoken words & grammar

distance, direction, & position of objects in space

• audio

• visual

• sensory

• spatial

What do you do when the doorbell rings in class?

• Ignore it

• Finish up what you're doing, then pay attention

• Stop what you're doing immediately and pay attention

• start talking to your friend

If you need to make a relevant comment or have a question in the middle of a lesson, what do you do?

• Blurt it out #nofilter

• Raise your hand and wait for me to call on you

• Tell your neighbor

• Walk up to the teacher and ask

What do you do when you come into the classroom each day?

• start yelling whatever you want, because everyone needs to hear you

• Go look out the window #views

• Go directly to your seat, read the board, and do what it says #level0

• ask to go to the bathroom even though you were just in the hallway

When Ms. Sanders asks me to do something, my response is:

• "Yes ma'am"

• "No way jose"

• "You're not he boss of me"

• "I do what I want"