3a.+Description+of+the+Multimodal+Task

Wiki – Groups of 4-5 students. They make a page on the wiki in which they have to put sound, image, text.
 * Rich Multimodal Task Description **

To reach the intended outcome, VAS2.3, students are to create the wiki with the goal that it will help fellow students to understand insects, dragons, and literacy (visual and written), and the various interpretations possible for understanding these concepts. Preferably, the intended audience should be the rest of the grade OR the grade below. Therefore, an ‘overview’ page should be created as a class expressing this goal, for example: //“hey fellow students, our class, 4-W just did a unit on Insects and Dragons and this is what we learnt!” //

Students each create their own page, like a book! They MUST include these things: - A scanned image of the shape poem that students have created in the Main Lesson 2. - A scanned image of the advertisement that students created in the Main Lesson 3. - The multimodal text created in the Main Lesson 4 (edited image, short paragraph, and voice recording). - Factual information on an insect – a few sentences (more advanced students must include statistics, different types of that insect etc.) - A visual component (such as image of their sculpture, of their work samples throughout the unit, pictures from google etc.) - A backing track/sound component (for example, David Attenborough voice clips, naturalistic sounds, own student voice-recordings etc.) - Colourful text, background - Formatting (bold, italics, underline, larger/smaller text, centre-alignment etc.) - A crossword, hangman or word-quiz game which requires others to guess words related to visual grammar, written grammar, and general insect/dragon concept.   As a conclusion, students present their individual wiki page to the class. They must justify why they have made certain decisions regarding formatting, layout, content etc. Finally, as a group they should present their page to their intended audience, i.e. the rest of the grade OR the grade below.  