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Unit 3: Communication Aids and Strategies Using Tools of Technology

The document discusses communication aids and strategies using technology tools. It defines what a multimodal text is, explaining that it combines two or more communication systems like linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial. Multimodal texts can be paper-based, digital or live. It also discusses transmedia texts that use different media to tell the same story.
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Unit 3: Communication Aids and Strategies Using Tools of Technology

The document discusses communication aids and strategies using technology tools. It defines what a multimodal text is, explaining that it combines two or more communication systems like linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial. Multimodal texts can be paper-based, digital or live. It also discusses transmedia texts that use different media to tell the same story.
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Unit 3: Communication Aids and Strategies

Using Tools of Technology


• Technology is undoubtedly an integral part of your
personal and school life.
Topic 1: Multimodal Text
What is a Multimodal Text?

A text may be defined as multimodal when it combines two or more


communication systems. 

• Linguistic refers to spoken and written language through the vocabulary, structure
and grammar of oral and written language

• Visual refers to moving or still images with the use of colors, layouts, screen
formats, symbols, shot framings, angle, camera movement and subject movement

• Audio refers to volume, pitch, rhythm, music and sound effects


 
*Gestural refers to movement, facial expression and body language
*Spatial refers to proximity, direction, position, layout and organization
of objects in space
A multimodal text can be paper like books, comics, and posters.
It can be digital like slide presentations, e-books, blogs, e-posters, web
pages, film and video games.
It can be live like a performance or an event.
Multimodal text can also be transmedia when the story is told using a
combination of different media platforms and formats like books,
comics, magazines, films, web series, and/or video games working as
part of the same story
It’s your turn!
Create a multi-modal material about responsible voting.

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