MULTIMODAL WRITING Jessie Lamb Jenny Evans WE CAN

MULTI-MODAL WRITING Jessie Lamb Jenny Evans

“WE CAN NO LONGER CALL IT WRITING EXCLUSIVELY AS THIS IS TOO SIMPLE FOR WHAT TEXT HAS BECOME. ” (HEALY 2008, 26)

WHAT THE RESEARCHERS SAY… Why? “Prensky (2001) says that the constant exposure to technological resources leads today’s students to develop hypertext minds that are physiologically different from the minds of students from previous generations…” -from Using Digital Story Projects The ultimate goal is to create globally competitive graduates.

WHAT THE RESEARCHERS SAY…

HOW TO MULTIMODAL… Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling: 1. Point of View: What is the main point of the story and what is the perspective of the author? 2. A Dramatic Question: A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end of the story. 3. Emotional Content: Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the audience to the story. 4. The Gift of Your Voice: A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context. 5. The Power of the Soundtrack: Music or other sounds that support and embellish the story. 6. Economy: Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer. 7. Pacing: The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses. -from http: //digitalstorytelling. coe. uh. edu/

HOW TO MULTIMODAL… Combining Traditional and New Literacies in a 21 st-Century Writing Workshop Prewriting Step: Collecting Ideas in a Notebook Planning: Allow students to plan beginning, middle, end of story instead of “retrieve-and-write” Developing Stories Through Recorded Oral Rehearsal: audio recordings that allowed the children to verbalize and elaborate their developing stories. (Serve as “external memory”) Listening, Critically Thinking, and Conferring: writing partners sit together and listen to one another’s oral tellings. Collaborative writing throughout the school day: some students were motivated to discuss their writing outside of the “writing block”. Creating Storyboards: simple graphic organizers that contained three parts: (1) the narration, (2) sketches, and (3) the media list. Narration: each storyboard page would become a frame in their digital stories and that the text they attached to each page would be used for the voiceovers. Photocopy students drafts and allow to cut and paste onto storyboards. Sketch: student draw a sketch as placeholders for each page of their storyboard to keep organized. Sketches represent the photos or artwork intended to be used in the digital story. Media List: Checklist of possible visuals that would replace the sketches in the students’ digital stories. Producing Digital Stories: Arrange stories on digital movie-making application (i. Movie). Inserted photos, music, oral readings, text to represent story.

METHODS TO MULTIMODAL… v. Google Docs v. Digital Story Books (storybird. com) v. Power. Point: used to create animated diagrams v. Wixie, Discovery Boardmaker v. Use of digital cameras & voice recording applications vi. Movie, Movie Maker, powtoons. com v. How do YOU multimodal? !? !? !? !