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Martin,
Speaking from my own perspective only, I understand "multimodal" in this
context to refer to a qualitative research method attempting to understand
teaching and learning accomplished via a coordination of various modes,
e.g., talk, gesture, gaze, inscription...
Two recent events have coaxed me into this area: 1) a student has brought to
my attention the text, " Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Jon Ogborn and
Charalampos Tsatsarelis (2001). Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The
Rhetorics of the Science Classroom. London and New York: Continuum."; 2)
I've begun a collaboration with David McNeill who is an expert in analyzing
talk, gesture, and gaze <http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/>...finally, it
doesn't hurt that, being an instructional designer, a central theme of this
research revolves around *design*...
I've found the following link to be an easily digestible introduction to
this term, along with related terms "multisemiotics" and "multiliteracies":
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications_reports_articles/web_arti
cles/Web_Article532
When I sent out the initial note about a symposium on qualitative methods,
quite a few mentioned their work in multimodality research...
Hope this helps to clarify!
Michael
-- ____________________________________ michael a. evans assistant professor 306 war memorial hall (0313) department of learning sciences & technologies school of education virginia tech email: mae@vt.edu phone: +1 540.231.3743 fax: +1 540.231.9075 > From: Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> > Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:03 -0400 > To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> > Conversation: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers > Subject: Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers > > I'm confused - is it the research that is multimodal, or the learning? > > > On 7/15/08 7:41 PM, "judithg@id.iit.edu" <judithg@id.iit.edu> wrote: > >> In addition to whatever Michael will send, I attended a quite >> wonderful conference on MultiModality and Learning in June, sponsored >> by the Institute of Education, University of London. >> >> See http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=16841 >> >> Best, >> Judith >> >> >> >> Quoting Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu >>> Michael, >>> >>> I'm always interested in qualitative research, and I'm a developmental >>> psychologist. Does 'multi-modal' in this context mean mixed methods? Is >>> there a more specific form emerging for this second topic? >>> >>> best >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>> __ >>> Martin Packer, Ph.D. >>> Associate Professor >>> Psychology Department >>> Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15282 >>> (412) 396-4852 >>> >>> www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/ >>> >>> >>> On 7/15/08 4:29 PM, "Michael A. Evans" <mae@vt.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> Wanted to submit one more inquiry regarding interest in the following two >>>> themes for possible AERA symposia: >>>> >>>>> Second life, WoW, and Other Virtual Environments for education >>>> >>>>> The role(s) of qualitative (multi-modal) research in the conduct >>>>> of research >>>> on learning and development >>>> >>>> Therešs room for 1-2 more abstracts on either topic if youšre interested in >>>> joining otherwise, Išll close this call and get working with those whošve >>>> already expressed an interest... >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Michael~ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xmca mailing list >>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >>> >> >> >> >> Judith Gregory, Ph.D. >> Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology >> 350 North LaSalle Street >> Chicago, IL 60610 USA >> tel: +1 312 315 3371 (cell/sms) >> fax: +1 312 595 4901 >> email: judithg@id.iit.edu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmcaReceived on Tue Jul 15 20:29 PDT 2008
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