Multi-Modalities = greater story comprehension

Multi-Modalities provide different instructional media opportunities for the benefit of multiple learning styles. Whether the viewer best learns through audio, visual or text does not matter. The same basic story elements are repeated across modalities.

Multimodality - Tie it together

Politically Incorrect Twitter Fiction

Twitter fiction uses 140 characters to tell a compelling story. You can bring it to life by adding visual effects to the narrative. Try Animoto software which combines text, photos, video and music for a full sensory experience. However, the free version only allows 30 seconds with a few choice words. This forces you to tell a concise story - which reflects the purpose of Twitter fiction.

But remember, twiterature isn't always classic literature. For example, DadBoner is an ongoing Twitter story of a small man from a small town, just trying to get by. Some fun excerpts from my interpretation of his day are captured below.

Copy of DadBoner

Assignment C – Animoto Review Video

Assignment

In this course we have covered a variety of topics such as Twitterature, born digital fictions, transmedia narrative and hyptertext. Think of a topic or even a specific work that is of great interest to you. Perhaps you were drawn into the growing pains of Alice in Inanimate Alice or would like to dig deeper into documentary born digital narrative. I would like you to choose your topic and create a (free) 30 second video using Animoto. You will need to include text, images and sound. You can draw from Animoto’s offerings or find copyright free images using the Creative Commons search on Flickr.

Your finished Animoto video must be shared both via Twitter (@JessL and use our class hashtag) AND the class blog, include a link to it in the comments of the Assignment D: Animoto Review Video blog post.

You must also include a comment about another student’s Animoto video. This comment can be separate or included with your video link comment.

Due in class on June 20^th

NOTE: our eclass does not accept links so please paste a link to your assignment blog post into a word document and upload that to moodle.