Multi Modal Learning

My second inquiry on Multi Modal Learning came from my DFI course at the beginning of the year. I have to admit I have struggled with this.  When I look back I'm not really sure I understood multi modal learning when on DFI, and decided to add audio to some  slides using Mote. This worked well until Mote said I needed to pay. 

If I could use a story from the Ready to Read with an audio I added that. In Term 2, I added Mote to a slide deck I made in Diffit for Matariki. Also in Term 2, we were looking at information reports in Writing so these were added to help my students find information.

I added Motes to these instructions for Writing Correct sentences.

Since teaching more digitally I have always used videos to help teach and reienfore a point especially in maths. I find someone else's voice often works better than mine.  Up until I was shown the Pillars of Practice for teaching reading in Term 3, I started to understand better.  My team leader, shared multimodal text selection slide and talked me through the multiple texts which really helped me focus when I made my multi-modal text. 

I created a guided reading plan with the help of my team leader using an article from the internet, a video and a written text around myths on the sun and the actual science.  I think my students have enjoyed using the different texts to link back to the focussing questions. I'm looking forward to creating more of these texts to help empower my students.