The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English

Just some quick thoughts on Carey Jewitt’s article:

Communication does indeed take place through the complex interplay of a range of modes. When reading some of these descriptions, I couldn’t help thinking how interesting it was that I was reading text that described the actions in a video that students used to better understand a text. What a unique space for learning! I wish the videos could have been embedded in the text and wonder if there are online journals that do that? I see this as an ultimate example of texts’ place at the top of academic discussions. It also highlights the ability of text to describe visuals as much visuals can be used to interpret text. Text can also create a viewing position for the reader. Text can describe the tone of someone’ voice. I don’t know if I’m comfortable with students being able to “by-pass the novel as a written text (i.e.they do not engage with it) and instead engage with it as a (multimodal) video text.” It's not the same type of learning experience. It’s clearly a new learning experience and it doesn’t engage in the text, although what it does do is very interesting. Given that it’s a new learning experience, I wish there was more on Bindy, the video character guide. I would be interested to know how students understood, related to, and made use of Bindy. What was Bindy’s roles and was the video guide able to achieve these goals?