For this task I was stomped for awhile not knowing how I can redesign the “What’s in your bag” task into an audio form without simply reading what I wrote down for the first task. After browsing some of my peer’s work I decided to write a poem and record it into an audio format. Writing the poem had its challenges such as trying to convey all of the information through a different mode of writing. I overcame this by only focusing on a couple of the reflection questions from task one. I mainly focused on describing the need for the items in my bag and how these items relate to text technologies and how I use it to engage with language and communication.

Throughout making this poem, I engaged in the iterative process as described in The New London Group’s article (NLG, 1996). I tried to create the most meaning from the words that I use and to make the stanzas sound cohesive. I went through many drafts and changed many words in my poem throughout the process. The redesign process also enabled me to demonstrate multi-literacies that I posses such as linguistic design and audio design according to The New London Group (1996).

While looking at ways I can redesign the “What’s in your bag” task, I came across a few peers that had redesigned their task into a podcast. This made me think of the difference in consumption of information when it is conveyed in a different mode. Visually, reading text consumes most of our attention and multitasking is usually limited. However when redesigned into an audio format, it can be consumed with more ease and can allow multitasking such as listening to a podcast while driving or cooking.

References:

The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. (Links to an external site.) Harvard Educational Review 66(1), 60-92.