Link Week 7 –  (Alanna Carmichael)

Alanna Carmichael:  https://blogs.ubc.ca/alannacarmichael540/2020/06/26/task-7-mode-bending/

Patricia McLean:  https://blogs.ubc.ca/course9fa832d3ed5e9bc0e2a4b9d769b3ff09f6e98b71/wp-admin/post.php?post=122&action=edit

I chose Alanna’s post for the assignment – Mode Bending – to link with my post regarding same this week.

Alanna and I chose very similar architecture(s) for the audio file required for this assignment.  We both used mp3 files to present the audio.

But Alanna I chose very different content for our audio presentations.  Again (this has happened before in this course) I interpreted the instructions for an assignment in a completely different way than another student.  The assignment in Mode Bending was to “change the semiotic mode of the first take to a different one…and instead, think about the original purpose of the task and redesign it, as entertained by the New London Group.”  I chose to redesign the task to ask the student to deliver the same content using a social media platform.  Alanna chose to change the introduction – from a focus on the items in her bag to instead a day in the life of a  TTOC reader.  During her audio, she went in and out of her bag, but the real focus was on understanding on her day progressed, from entering the school, to entering the classroom to filling her time on breaks.  The audios were two ships in the night.

But why – it comes from the text.  The text was read very differently by Alanna and myself.  Both ways to read the text were possible and plausible.  Neither of us went off on a lark that did not stem from the assignment instructions.

The architectures as between Alanna’s post and my own were also very different.  Alanna used an audio file but added sound-effects to amplify her program.  My audio file was basic (something for me to think about – I am getting more advanced every MET course and expect by the end to be a tech wizard!).