multimodal text

• Communication Aids

  • strategies, systems, techniques, and tools used to help a person communicate effectively
  • wide range of strategies and techniques to support spoken communication
  • AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
• AAC

  Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• Main Types of AAC System

  1. Unaided Communication
  2. Aided Communication
• Unaided Communication

  • does not require equipment, tool, or physical aid to support communication
• Aided Communication

  • use equipment or materials
  • (low-tech, high-tech)
• Communication Strategies

  • blueprints for how the information will be shared and exhanged
• Types of Communication Strategies

  • Verbal Communication Strategies
  • Nonverbal Communication Strategies
  • Visual Communication Strategies
  • Written Communication Strategies
• Verbal Communication Strategies

  • used voice and linguistics
• Visual Communication Strategies

  • illustrations, web pages, and images
• Written Communication Strategies

  • written message
• Nonverbal Communication Strategies

  • without words but through visual cues
• Modes

  • the manner a person will communicate or the way text can be presented
• Text

  • any modes that are used by the sender of the information
• Multimodal Texts

  • employs the use of more than one mode to communicate
• Types of Modes

  • Visual
  • Spatial
  • Aural
  • Gestural
  • Linguistics
• Visual

  • images and characters that we see
• Spatial

  • arrangement of elements in space, organization, and proximity of the text
• Aural

  • sound that we hear
• Gestural

  • way of movement is interpreted
• Linguistics

  • alphabetic mode; written or spoken words
• Types of Multimodal Texts

  • Paper
  • Digital
  • Live
  • Transmedia
• Paper

  • books, comics, flyers
• Digital

  • blogs, videos, multimedia platforms, slide presentations and web pages
• Live

  • performances, acts, ballets or dances
• Transmedia

  • use of various platforms in storytelling involving the audience, as well as transferring content from one media to another
• Media

  • channel through which information is conveyed
• Multimedia

  • use the combination of different elements to convey information namely text, images, audio, videos, and animations
• Multimedia platforms

  • facebook, email, blog, google+, instagram, linkedin, skype, snapchat, tinder, twitter
• Digital Slides

  • presentation software commonly through powerpoint, prezi and canva
• 10-20-30

  • 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 font size
• 1-6-6

  • 1 main idea, 6 bullet points, 6 words per bullet
• 7-7

  • 7 lines, 7 words
• 9Ps

  • prior, proper, preparation, prevents, poor performance of the person putting on the presentation