Maria's Blog - (ENGL 235)

 What is Multimodal Composition? Welcome back again!  I hope you're all doing well, and having a wonderful semester so far! To get on track here, multimodal composition was definitely another word I knew absolutely nothing about! When we first started talking about it, I assumed it meant just using multiple types of learning tools, and to a point I wasn't wrong, but I didn't really understand the complexity of the term. After learning a little more about it through reading, I can confidently say that multimodal composition is the act of teaching using multiple forms of learning, whether that be visual, auditory, physical, musical, mathematic, and social.  Its using the different ways people learn to teach, and doing some of them at the same time to hopefully make learning easy to understand and fun to a point!  This was made the clearest through the article called "Modernizing Shakespeare with Multimodal Learning Stations", where teachers set up multiple stations ...

 What is Visual Literacy?  I asked the same question myself when i began this unit! To be honest, I had never really heard of visual literacy before, or why it would even be valuable to me as a teacher or a student. My reaction initially was confusion.  From my understanding now, visual literacy is combining visuals with reading, and the biggest example we used for this was graphics novels, which i adore! Visual literacy is for people who don't just learn through words, but who learn through seeing it in a visual format, weather that be art, or a diagram, or a graph for some examples.  The one article that really made this clear to me was "I Just Need To Draw", which showed multiple examples of students sharing what they've learned through art. One of my favorites was figure 5, made by a 12 year old named Adam. This honestly made me feel that no matter what art skills you have, you can prove yourself and how smart you are through visuals.  I, personally, am an a...

 Hey all!      Its lovely to meet you all, and I'm excited to start my blog! My names Maria, and this blog is here to be a part of a project for my "Writing for Non-Print Media" class, and I'm excited about it!     A little bit about me, I'm a double major in English Ed and Theater, and I'm also a member of the Musical Theater Society on campus! I'm a sophomore, and I room with two of my best friends on campus who I love so much! My boyfriend is also on campus with me, and I'm very happy to have him with me! FAST FUN FACTS I love reading, and i usually read horror or dystopian literature. (i recently finished "You've Lost a Lot Of Blood" and "Tender is the Flesh", and im in the middle of reading "The Troop") My favorite musical is the Jekyll and Hyde musical, and my favorite book is also "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde".  I'm a 3rd generation Italian American, my great grandma ...