Digging for Multimodal Items

  1. Kindle (Visual, Aural, Gestural, Linguistic)
  2. Pen (Visual, Gestural)
  3. Textbook (Visual, Linguistic)
  4. iClicker (Linguistic, Gestural)
  5. water bottle (Visual, Aural, Gestural, Linguistic)
  6. Computer charger (Spatial, Visual)
  7. ipod (Visual, Aural, Gestural, Linguistic)
  8. Airport parking pass (Visual, Linguistic)
  9. Contact lens case (Spatial, Visual)
  10. Batteries (Visual, Linguistic, Spatial)
  11. Written letter (Visual, Gestural, Linguistic)
  12. Eyedrops (Visual, Gestural, Spatial)
  13. Neosporin (Visual, Gestural)

I didn’t have any texts that immediately struck me with all five modes of text although I feel like my kindle somehow could qualify as spatial which would give it all five. I noticed that every single one of my texts either qualifies as Visual or Linguistic and a lot of them have both. One thing that I find interesting is that I have a lot of random items in my backpack that differ from each other in every other aspect but their modes of communication are the same. For example, my really old airport parking pass from 2012 and my Kindle that I got this year both communicate Visually and Linguistically.