Multimodal Texts
- Insulin Pump (V)
- Planner (V)
- Notebook (V)
- Credit Card (V) (L)
- Driver’s License (V) (L) (S)
- I-clicker (V)
- Calculator (L) (V)
- Software disk (L) (V)
- Juice Box (V) (L) (S)
- Chapstick (V) (L)
- Blood sugar test strip box (L) (V)
- Scarf (S) (V)
I do not have texts that use all five modes of communication, but I have several that I think use three of the modes. My juice box and my driver’s license do an effective job of using Visual, Linguistic, and Spatial communication. Across the board, all of my items use the Visual mode of communication because they all have an aspect of color, layout, style, or size, or a combination of them. I have a lot of similar types of text, such as my planner and notebook, my driver’s license and my credit card, and my calculator and my i-clicker. I think they were all most likely made in the same general time period, though I can’t be certain. My apple juice box, chapstick, and scarf are all different from my other multimodal texts so it is hard to say which text is most different from another.
I think it is fun to think about what is considered a “text” because I would’ve never thought about my chapstick or my scarf as being considered a form of text, but it makes sense when I think about it now. It is cool how different forms of communication can come together to form one object, item, or movement!
