With the updated syllabus comes updated assessment requirements and one of the new ways of testing understanding of students is asking them to present their learning in the form of a multimodal text.
This is somewhat new concept and while multimodals still have roots in analysis and conceptual understanding, the way in which it is presented slightly differs to a traditional essay.
Below are the three top tips we share with our students to help with the preparation of a multimodal:
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Begin with an essay structure. Deconstruct the question like you would with any analytical question and prepare an outline of the ideas and evidence that you are going to use. Often students get carried away with the presentation aspect but forget that without an analytical foundation, their content is not properly prepared.
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Once the essay transcript is prepared, being to break this down into storyboard noting which ideas will appear on each slide/frame. Consider the different elements that you like to have together on each slide/frame which will compliment the ideas in the transcript.
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Now its time to construct your multimodal. A key aspect for this step is making sure you include images, videos, sound, text together with other elements of transitions and sounds. These are the building blocks of your multimodal – that is, incorporating many different forms of text types. We usually use Keynote or iMovie as they are the easiest applications to work with.
There you have it, 3 simple steps to get you going on your next multimodal assessment. If you are currently working on a multimodal and need some help, drop us a line and we would love to have a chat!