I've been thinking about how I could use this. Will there be room for it Witihin the main body of the dissertation? How and where will it fit in, without going over ground that has ready been covered? How much space should be allocated to it?
I could try and be quite imaginative with this. In my head I'd been thinking that this would be text and photographs. There's an opportunity though to do something more interesting. I could make the write up quite an interesting multimodal artefact in itself, as follows:
Another quite interesting idea... I could create some form of image (annotated photograph, manipulated photo, my own creation) to demonstrate the different modes being employed. This would almost be a scientific e.g. Medical, biological diagram. Maybe do this in thinglink: by hovering over different parts of the diagram, text appears naming the mode. THe pop Up text would be a combination of descriptive dialogue interwoven with literature, for instance a direct quote or a 'see for instance Kress 2001'. A bit like the maps for the NG project, I should take the original photo and do something interesting with it, not least as my own 'people shots' from the observation aren't particularly strong. AS this is in Eca/architecture, maybe I take an artistic or architectural approach to the image. Actually, the idea of architecture is good, although it could cause confusion with the constellation map if it ends up looking like a plan. Maybe just go for something interesting and artistic. It might be difficult to depict the artwork on a people image therefore maybe i create a composite in PowerPoint, with a 'model and sketches' image inset, which I then import to thinglink to make interactive. As per the use of videos within this dissertation, I don't want lots of accompanying explanatory text - this implies a lack of faith in the artefact. This image should work as a stand alone, therefore I'll have the smallest amount of text (as part of the wider text) and then have - 'see image' or perhaps not even that.
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Another helpful e-mail from Sian:
So there you go! Land's work on crests....was Sian's work.
A reply from Sian in response to my question about the use of video. I can't disagree with any of the below. Basically, it would be good, but its not necessary, and my priority should be the writing.
The video idea was already on hold until I get the writing out of the way, however it has been useful to have this reaffirmed.
I know I'm not supposed to be working on this until the writing is out of the way, however I had half an hour in a cafe over lunch so thought I might as well put it to use. Some thoughts on how the 'campus exploration' video might work:
What follows?
[Lunch ends] The 'digital tools' video should be included at the end of the Acknowledgements and References section.
It's appropriate that the ending to the dissertation should be authentically multimodal. Maybe there's even a way of acknowledging the conclusion of the dissertation with what appears in the video? Maybe something on screen? Maybe I log out. Or the computer shuts down and then the lights go off (with sound) as per the Manifesto video. This would be nice - nothing too forced, though - no 'The End' or 'That's all folks' kind of thing. Quickly: the Abstract should be linked from the screen on the front page of the website.
Or can it appear in full, rather than linked? Not sure that would work particularly well in thinglink. It might work in Padlet, although that has limitations in its own right. The following text could go in the methodology. It's lifted from an earlier draft of the Introduction:
A semi-narrative approach also encouraged participants to tell their own story of how they had encountered multimodality as students or in other settings, and how this had informed their subsequent practice as tutors. Participants were also invited to discuss how they would approach the assessment of two contrasting multimodal assessment artefacts, having been invited to view the work prior to interview. Before I start writing the content for each component of the website, I will draft the short introductory signpost that goes at the top of each section.
This will be helpful in enabling me to work out exactly what is going to be included within each section of the dissertation. It will also be a useful document to send to Sian for comments. [File under Abandoned ideas]
A useful idea this. It came to me a whilst waiting for the audience to arrive for a talk in a high school earlier today. It's funny how, given a fixed and short amount of time, it's possible to come up with some clear and potentially useful ideas. I think I should have a dedicated Contents page after all. Here's how it will work in relation to the constellation image on the front cover. Bullet points as again, I've got a fixed amount of time to spend on this just now.
I bumped into Tim Fawns on the way into work. We had a useful conversation about the difficulty of drawing a piece of research or work to a close. I mentioned that the word count from this blog is far greater than the running total (or limit) for the dissertation. We talked about that. And here am I writing about it, adding further words.
Anyway, some wise words from Tim (in no particular order):
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