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Isn't our life saturated with "digital presentation"? Ads, videos, social media, TV, gaming, all manner of feeds and software...do we need to add more to the gargantuan collage? Do they distract us or help us focus? Even our textbooks and printed works look more and more like a screen - SERIOUSLY? - has digital become the ONLY medium for all senses: sound, vision, communication, kinetic experience?

Give me at least 5 good reasons to move my serious content into that mayhem and noise!
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Why Digital Presentations?

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Presentation slides for WSU Libraries' Digital Literacy Series: Introducing Digital Presentations

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Why Digital Presentations?

a few good reasons...
Isn't our life saturated with "digital presentation"? Ads, videos, social media, TV, gaming, all manner of feeds and software...do we need to add more to the gargantuan collage? Do they distract us or help us focus? Even our textbooks and printed works look more and more like a screen - SERIOUSLY? - has digital become the ONLY medium for all senses: sound, vision, communication, kinetic experience?

Give me at least 5 good reasons to move my serious content into that mayhem and noise!
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because it works!

we make technology. technology improves our lives. technology helps us make
Because...advertising. It WORKS! "We make technology. Technology improves our lives. Technology helps us make more technology..."
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MODES
perceiving - knowing

Why has digital information and presentation taken off? Think what it usually combines - verbal, visual, structural, environmental, accessible cues to our modes of perception.

These accord with our modes of knowing - affective, visual, aural, cognitive, and so on...

Utilizing multiple inputs and formats activate more of the connective activities of our bodies / and the world - perhaps constructing more complete learning, listening, attentive experiences.

And we can make them together...
Photo by ocean.flynn
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Participation
and
Collaboration

Digital technology invites and enables collaboration and participation in constrained or controlled environments. Not only of the various senses, but activities and behaviors as well
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multimodality

and Literacies
Appealing to more than one "semiotic system" in communication is called MULTIMODALITY.

Combining multiple modes of meaning-making in presentations and instruction enables:

Accessibility
Various Learning Styles
Structuring (sequencing / narrative / mapping)
Connections
Analysis & Synthesis
Socio-cognitive-affective learning

and

the opportunity to critically reflect on the digital world we're immersed in...
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VISUAL


format
color
framing
layout
angle
subject
lines
symbols
movement
sequence
arrangement

Some elements of Visual Literacy that can be highlighted and critically reviewed with digital presentations
Photo by launceston_lad
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written/linguistic

vocabulary rhetoric point of view  grammar structure font emphasis context
Aspects of Linguistic literacy
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AUDIO

SOUND EFFECTS, PITCH, VOLUME, NOISE, SILENCE, RHYTHM
Some aspects of Audial Literacy
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gestural

body hands eyes expression demeanor stillness speed motion
Gestural Literacy
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spatial

proximity layout direction organization relation
Spatial literacies
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Multimodal is the dynamic convergence of two or more communication modes within the same object and where all modes are attended to as part of meaning-making (The New London Group, 1996). Most resources we interact with are multimodal when we take the visual, aural and design elements into account.

creating multimodal texts. (2013). Retrieved October 6, 2015, from http://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/
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WHY DIGITAL PRESENTATIONS?
ENGAGING
COLLABORATIVE
MULTIMODAL
METALITERACY

Nathan Filbert