"Multimodal Projects"

"Multimodal projects"

Multimodal: Is a mash up of multiple and mode. 

#Decribe how we combine multiple diffrent way to communicating in every day life.

Example: Academic essay

biology posters

powerpoint presentations

Mode: Is a way of communicating, such as the words we're using to explain our ideas in this paragraph or the images we use throughout this book to illustrate varicous 

Concepts.

#Five mode of communication: # Linguistic, # Visual, # Aural,# Gestural, and # Spatial could be found to all text.

Example: News Paper, Science Reports, Music Video, Play in a simple T.V. commercial.

Linguistic Mode: The linguistic mode refers to the # use of language, which usually means written or spoken words.

Example:word choice

The delivery of spoken or written text.

The organization of writing, or speech into phrases, sentences, and paragraphs.

The development and coherence of individual words and ideas.

contemporary communication

 Example for contemporary communication: Carl-Henric Svanberg, widely criticized comment "small people" to  public citizens.

Visual Mode: Refers to the use of images, and other characteristics that readers see and to Visual information in an effort to attract our attention.

# Understand each page

#communicate representations

#  How something looks

# How some one is feeling

# To instruct, persuade, entertain

color, layout, Style , size, and perspective.

Aural Mode: provide multiple ways of communicating and understanding a message, # The Aural  mode focuses on sound.

Example: Talking about a speech

A video demonstration

Sound effects on a website

# The audio elements of a radio program

Music, Sound effects, Tone of voice in spoken language, Volume of sound, Emphasis accent.

Spatial Mode: Is about physical arrangementhow a brochure opens and the way it leads the    reader through the text.It also refer to the placement of navigation on a web page to maximize access for users.# This mode help us to understand why physical spaces arranged in particular ways to encourage certain kinds of behavior.

Example: Grocery Stores, Classroom

arrangement, organization, and proximity between people or objects.

Gestural Mode:The way movement, such as body language, can make meaning.Interact with people real life or watch them on screen. # Can tell  how they are felling and what they are trying to communicate.

Example:Facial Expressions, hand gestures,

body language, and interaction between people.

Geatural Mode:provides an important way of connecting (or showing an inability to connect) to others people.The gestural has been impottant in Face-to Face conversations, and theater, but understanding # the gestural mode is just as important when communication takes place through #Virtual interactions on-screen.

Example: News, president Obama speech move hands, and

Condoleezza Rice speech movement on hands and faces are diffrents gestures.