A Moment with Multimodality.
Multimodality in The Composition Classroom As a student, I did not have much interaction with multimodality. Communication was mainly through reading and writing about the same. The resources available to me were pen and paper and the computer where I would type essays as required by the course and submit hard copies to the professor. My experience with multimodality was towards the end of my undergraduate study where one of my professors required the use of PowerPoint presentations in class. These had to incorporate a variety of media including video, sound, still images and graphics to communicate our understanding of various topics we had learnt in class. This was by far my favorite class. Multimodality in the classroom proved to be an important way of interpreting texts and creating meaning in ways I had not experienced before. I am observing ENG 103: Rhetoric and Writing class. On the first day of lessons, the professor drew a simple two-dimensional structure on the wh...