{"id":1146,"date":"2021-02-27T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540texttechnologies2021\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2021-02-27T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:12:51","slug":"task-7-mode-bending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540texttechnologies2021\/2021\/02\/27\/task-7-mode-bending\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 7 | Mode-Bending"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This week\u2019s task asks us to re-design the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540texttechnologies2021\/2021\/01\/14\/first-post\/\">\u201cWhat\u2019s in your bag?\u201d<\/a> submission using an audio format. I spent a long going back and forth between Task 1 and the reading, clueless about how I can accomplish this task. Then, I thought of the task statement \u201cthink of the original purpose of the task\u201d and recalled Ernesto\u2019s comment on my submission, \u201cThe idea of reading yourself through the artifacts.\u201d I can finally see a solid connecting line: The bag items reflects each one\u2019s unique world (background, languages, interests, cultures, roles, and so forth). Below is my attempt for the new \u201cResigned\u201d that I have titled \u201cMy bag: A\u00a0 mirror of my ..,\u201d symbolizing my being, my daily life, my culture and more through the items inside my bag.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zy5Pieg78AA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"center\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Retrieved\u00a0 from: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/genre\/Turkish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Music Archive: Turkish <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/melody4arab.com\/albums\/en_view_albums_505.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omar Khairat MP3 Songs (melody4arab.com)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" bgcolor=\"#f6f6f6\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Fabric fits onto the lower part of the face; <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Respiration is seized inside.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A hand reaches on to grasp an odour that tastes <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Bitter; washes off the surface like a tide. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A door swings, and the sunlight is beaming from the outside.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It goes swaying closed, from open to shut, it glides.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Picked into a lock, a pendulum dangles, side to side.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Lights flash, buttons push, motion spins onto the roadside. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">An office, light dull, work neatly sits. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Type, Type bits and bytes processes rapidly. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Eyes flap like wings towards a stationary kit. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Scribble, pencils, sharp as darts, twirl on paper thoughtfully. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Lines draw on dozens of sheets, evenly and boldly striking across,\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Coiled together, a page flutters to another. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A block, two blocks away, two roads to cross. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In a room, lights shine, and dentures display, there, stood a mother. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Stretching between teeth, an elastic is drawn to the mother\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A daughter will soon sense the excruciating pain of the rubber band, swimming in her gums.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A purse unbuttons itself, and a card is lent to a machine, that on a counter, lies.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The machine assures an agreement that hums.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Sliding outside, a bill arrives with symbols encrypted in black. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Gratitude leaves the room in footsteps that follow the mother home.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Off, parched, violet lips, lipstick smudges, to and fro, front and back.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Now assignments delegate and effort would roam; <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Paper crumples, pressure grows and stacks.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Once all is settled and eyes are wary,\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A phone speaks in various languages, such intimacy brings joy. <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Laughter fills the room, culture is merry; <\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In warm languages, all can enjoy. <\/span><\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reflection<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The New London Group (1996) explained that designing \u201cis never simply a repetition of Available Designs\u201d (p.75); in contrast, it involves transformation by making innovation of old materials. With this new understanding, I forced my brain to think creatively instead of conventionally. For that, I needed to push the logical me away and step out of the comfort zone to change the expression mode and compose a poem about the items in my bag and their symbolic roles in my life. I tried to follow the well-known AB AB format (two two-line stanzas, with the first lines rhyming at the end and the second lines rhyming at the end) while writing the poem; my main helper (cheat sheet) was the well-known \u201c<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhymezone.com\/r\/d=rhythm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RyhmeZone<\/a>.\u201d I would like to highlight that I am not a person with linguistic intelligence or poetically gifted so please forgive me for all types of mistakes (including the wrong pronunciations).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the New London Group (1996), the most significant semiotic mode is a combination of several modes embracing multiliteracies. My recreation is a multimodal representation that rests on linguistic (metaphors and rhythms), audio (voice, sound effects, and music), visual (drawing the object\/animation), and gestural (feelings and affect) designs. I was drawn to the cultural resources and subjectivity highlights in the New London Group (1996); &#8220;the Redesigned is founded on historically and culturally received patterns of meanings&#8221; (p.76). Thus, I chose the background music for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omar_Khairat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omar Khairat<\/a>&#8220;, the well-known Egyptian musician and end up the production with &#8220;Seyyah &#8211; \u00c7e\u00e7en Kizi&#8221;, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pdme\/59-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkish traditional\/historical music<\/a>. I was also keen to embed Arabic and English into the receipt image, representing the main languages spoken in the United Arab of Emirates (where I currently work); I can speak these languages. Similarly, I thought of my iPhone as an item that speaks my languages (text \/voice) and ties me with family members in different places. Along the way, this multimodal creation encapsulates a slow path to the emotional and imaginative mind that shades within the writing compositions and the rational qualities of my job, and that personally surprises me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I employed Vyond to complete the task. I am not quite savvy in its use, but I wanted to expand my digital literacy. The choice was based on my needs; along with the poem narration, I wanted to communicate my ideas with illustrative figures, making the abstract statements concrete. Additionally, I used the tool to edit sound, control the audio volume, and create multilayer sounds; I am inexperienced at this design area and I sharpened my technical skills (at a small-scale) throughout this simple design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Overall, I gained several benefits and insights throughout this task. Firstly, I achieved something outside of the scope of my typical conventional thinking. Secondly, the experience was a juxtaposition and integration of the four components of pedagogy. I ran into situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, transformed practice to complete the design process. Lastly, it alludes to makerspace education research suggesting that technological developments are rich sites for developing multimodal designs. In my situation, Vyond served as a useful starting point to facilitating a semiotic mode (audio design) beyond my capabilities. Though the outcome might not be perfect as for now. However,\u00a0 by taking an iterative approach in the development, I can continue to make minor improvements in this aspect using various environments, which may lead to significant advances in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his ground-breaking book entitled \u201cThe world is flat,\u201d describing the remote and global qualities in all of our life aspects due to the technological revolution, Friedman (2005) stated that we have moved from a \u201cconnected to hyperconnected\u201d world. Intricately related to the globalized connectedness is the fact that the classrooms are getting increasingly diverse. The notion of \u201cmultiliteracies\u201d in the New London Group (1996) reading begs educators and decision-makers to extend beyond the traditional notion of literacy and operate in terms of extensive multiplicities. They shed light on how the individual and collective levels are now blurred, and historical, cultural, and technoscientific processes are thoroughly intertwined. Beyond, or better, <em>before<\/em>, the question &#8220;who, what, and how of the notion of multiliteracies or 21st-century literacies?&#8221; lies a question about the essentialist and humanist traditions dominating the educational practices. These approaches failed to ensue a holistic view, one that brings in very different cultural perspectives of learning and knowing and clearly failed to deal with the complex notions of literacies (Kuby, 2019). In an increasingly complex world that is becoming more global, technological, and diverse, a key perspective to consider in the conception of literacies is that \u201cno culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive\u201d (Mahatma Gandi in Chakrabarti, 1992). The future depends on multiliteracies that operate from an intensive multiculturalism concept and on more holistic and inclusive theories and practices for all learners.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">References<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chakrabarti, M.(1992). <em>Ghandian humanism<\/em>. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing Company\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Friedman, T.L.(2005). <em>The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty first century<\/em>. New York: Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kuby, C. R. (2019). (Re)imagining multiliteracies research practices with post qualitative inquiry. In<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">N. Kucirkova, J. Rowsell, &amp; G. Falloon (Eds.),<em>The routledge international handbook of learning with technology in early childhood<\/em> (pp. 127\u2013142). Routledge.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/<\/a>10.4324\/9781315143040<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The New London Group.\u00a0 (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. <em>Harvard Educational Review<\/em>\u00a0<em>66<\/em>(1), 60-92.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s task asks us to re-design the \u201cWhat\u2019s in your bag?\u201d submission using an audio format. I spent a long going back and forth between Task 1 and the reading, clueless about how I can accomplish this task. 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