Digital and Multimodal Literacies in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms: Introduction

Welcome to my blog on digital and multimodal literacies in elementary and middle school classrooms. In this blog, I'll share what the students in my graduate level class on digital and multimodal literacies are learning. To do that, I'll share their blogs and the projects that they are creating as a part of the face to face portion of our hybrid class at the University of Oklahoma. We are now 10 weeks into the semester so they have posted several times already. Each student (there are 9 students, 8 master's level and 1 doctoral student) began with a topic they wanted to explore around the big topic of digital and multimodal literacy. They each created an inquiry question of what they wanted to know. They went searching for literature to answer their question, and divided what they found into 5 sub topics. They have also been planning to implement lessons in their own classrooms (8 are practicing teachers, 1 is not) to demonstrate their understanding of their topic and answer to the inquiry question. They will be posting on that as well as evaluating digital resources.

So here are the topics of their blogs and links to take you to them:

Using Web & Digital Literacies to Support Struggling Readers

https://mrsbartlettteaches.blogspot.com

Multimodal Composition: Creating Engaging Communication in English/Language Arts

https://audrabenn.blogspot.com/

Emergent Bilinguals and Multimodal Writing in the Primary Grades

https://emergentbilingualsandmultimodal.blogspot.com

Digital and Multimodal Literacies and Student Motivation

https://newliteraciesandmotivation.blogspot.com/

Integrating Subjects Using PDI

https://integratingusingpdi.blogspot.com

Using Multimodal Literacy Tools to Support Learners Who Need Challenging