Greetings! This is my second blog post. My professor had made up a number of questions that we had to answer for these readings. The first reading is teaching us how to create and assess our Weebly website, which I am surprisingly adapting to fairly quickly. The second reading is about Multimodal writing and how it’s technically "all the same," an article by Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton. The third reading is about C.R.A.P- the principles of designing, which is a short article and video composed by Greg and Mark, aka two geeks thinking. Lastly, the fourth reading is about assessing Multimodal student work. I enjoyed these readings. They were very informal. I'm not the best with technology, so a lot of this information they provided helped me a lot. How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial) All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton) It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners) Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University) The reason we are creating a website for our English Composition class is because my professor seems to want this class to be different than your average English class, which was music to my ears. I haven’t had the best experiences with english classes in high school and in college, and I know I’m one of many. We are taking a different approach to writing and focusing more on finding out our own individual style with it.
In the reading “All Writing is Multimodal”, Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton explain when humans interact with each other, whether it’s in person or in their writing, they are using a serious of the 5 modes. The 5 modes are: Linguistic, Aural, Gestural, Spatial, and Visual. I do agree with Ball and Charlton. I think we as humans show a lot of emotions when we interact. Many of us are dramatic and like to emphasize or over exaggerate what we say when we speak, even though a text message. We hardly ever just use only one of those modes. So when we are speaking, it “isn’t just words” as they had mentioned. As a student who will be designing my own website, I feel that the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5 is a 5. I think using at least a couple of these modes at a time is very significant. People want to feel something when they see pictures or in what they are reading, whether it’s being able to relate to it or educate them, etc. In my opinion, the modes play a huge role in that. For Linguistic, humans need to be able to understand what language you’re trying to connect with them in. That doesn’t mean just being able to read or speak that language either. It more so means being able to communicate in a way that the person will understand and connect with. When it comes to Aural, having your writing or speech actually being listened to is extremely important. It’s so easy to listen to someone or read something and having it go in one ear and out the other. As far as Gestural, it is crucial you are thoroughly expressing yourself and what you’re trying to show or explain, in this case a website, is something you’re passionate about. It will be tough to find someone who is interested in something that has no feeling or meaning behind it. For Spatial, having the design of my website in the way it is arranged will make all the difference in the world. You want the flow of the website to be intriguing. Finally, having a Visually appealing website is very meaningful to me. I feel as though websites should be easy and appealing to the eye. Too many websites are difficult to navigate through simply because of the way they look, in my opinion anyway. In the “It’s All C.R.A.P” reading, the acronym C.R.A.P means: C- contrast, R-repetition, A-alignment, and P-proximity. I believe on a scale from 1-5 the importance of the acronym is a 5. In this article, it explains that contrast is about making things stand out. In a website setting, you want people to be interested in your website, and to do so you need to make things stand out on it in a way that it makes sense. Repetition of colors and design helps anyone looking at your website look neat and easier to use. Alignment organizes your website and keeps it organized. Proximity helps pull everything together so it all makes sense. In the reading “Assessing Multimodal Student Work”, the seven sample criteria are purpose, audience, tone, organized, transitions, synthesizes, and detailed. The Borton and Hout criteria seems different because I feel it’s more thought out and would attend to your average students more than your traditional essay. A lot of traditional essays from my experience that are given as assignments can be very draining to write because it lacks purpose. I also can relate to the fact that not everyone is as technically inclined as others.
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