COMMUNICATION AIDS AND STRATEGIES USING TOOLS OF
TECHNOLOGY
5.1 Creation of Multimodal Texts
5.2 Production of Multimodal Texts
5.3 The Art of Making PowerPoint Presentation
Although multimodal texts are often associated with digital communication
technologies, multimodal texts are not synonymous with digital. Their creation can
be of any medium: paper – such as books, comics, posters: digital – from slide
presentations, e books, blogs, e-posters, web pages, and social media, to animation
film, and video games: live – like a performance or an event; or transmedia – where
the story is narrated using ―multiple delivery channels‖ by means of a combination
of media platforms, for instance, books, comics, magazine, film, web series, and video
game mediums all working as part of the same story (O‘Brien, 2017).
Transmedia, a highly contested term, is ―what the word parts suggest it
might be: a merging of media form, here the digital with the narrative, but with the
multiple platforms a part of the narrative‖ (Heick, 2018).
Glee is an example of a transmedia narrative in which the audience follows the
characters and situations across media, but more often, its transmedia strategies
focus on the transmedia performance, with the songs moving though YouTube,
iTunes, live performances, and so on, which the audience reads ageist each other to
make sense of the larger Glee phenomenon.
You do ―Patchworking when you exploit certain threads in the materials you
have gathered from various sources and stitch these together to create your own
―patchwork and your own understanding of the materials. In other words, you re-
contextualize (or place in a different context) the materials you have collected from
various sites to serve your own purpose of presenting them in a multimodal text in a
multimodal text in a classroom setting, and there is nothing anomalous about this. If
you use this Patchworking, however, be sure to acknowledge all your sources or you
will be guilty of plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the act of stealing and passing off as you own the ideas, words,
or any other intellectual property produced by another person. For example, if you
use another person ‘s words in a research paper without citing your source, you
commit an act of plagiarism.
TECHNOLOGY
5.1 Creation of Multimodal Texts
5.2 Production of Multimodal Texts
5.3 The Art of Making PowerPoint Presentation
Although multimodal texts are often associated with digital communication
technologies, multimodal texts are not synonymous with digital. Their creation can
be of any medium: paper – such as books, comics, posters: digital – from slide
presentations, e books, blogs, e-posters, web pages, and social media, to animation
film, and video games: live – like a performance or an event; or transmedia – where
the story is narrated using ―multiple delivery channels‖ by means of a combination
of media platforms, for instance, books, comics, magazine, film, web series, and video
game mediums all working as part of the same story (O‘Brien, 2017).
Transmedia, a highly contested term, is ―what the word parts suggest it
might be: a merging of media form, here the digital with the narrative, but with the
multiple platforms a part of the narrative‖ (Heick, 2018).
Glee is an example of a transmedia narrative in which the audience follows the
characters and situations across media, but more often, its transmedia strategies
focus on the transmedia performance, with the songs moving though YouTube,
iTunes, live performances, and so on, which the audience reads ageist each other to
make sense of the larger Glee phenomenon.
You do ―Patchworking when you exploit certain threads in the materials you
have gathered from various sources and stitch these together to create your own
―patchwork and your own understanding of the materials. In other words, you re-
contextualize (or place in a different context) the materials you have collected from
various sites to serve your own purpose of presenting them in a multimodal text in a
multimodal text in a classroom setting, and there is nothing anomalous about this. If
you use this Patchworking, however, be sure to acknowledge all your sources or you
will be guilty of plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the act of stealing and passing off as you own the ideas, words,
or any other intellectual property produced by another person. For example, if you
use another person ‘s words in a research paper without citing your source, you
commit an act of plagiarism.
