Thinking About Multimodality

I see Takayoshi and Selfe's main argument in this piece to be that teaching multimodal composition is an effective way to get students more involved in what they are learning and can also help accelerate their comprehension of material. I agree with this argument, especially since students are surrounded with multimodal compositions outside of the classroom and are engaged in creating them as well.

The implications that this piece has for a class like ours is that we are going to have to incorporate many aspects of rhetoric and composition in our productions. We need to change the way we look at multimedia. We need to look at it not as a form of entertainment but as a valuable tool for education.

Their discussion of multimodality adds to what we learned in Daley's piece because it further highlights the importance that media has in helping people retain information. Major events in history have remained in the public's consciousness due to photographs taken, as well as news broadcasts, such as during the aftermath of 9/11.

I see this piece fitting in with our blogs because this is our chance to create our own media as well as critique media within our culture.