Blog #2

In the Takayoshi and Selfe article I see their main point as being the importance of teaching multimodality in college level composition classes. In this article multimodal texts are seen as "texts hat incorporate words, images, video, and sound". Takayoshi and Selfe believe that its important to teach these things becase "whatever profession students hope to enter, they can expect to read and be asked to help compose multimodal texts of various kids, texts designed to communicate on mulitple semiotic channels, using all available means of creating and conveying meaning". I do agree that students will do these things because like they said, most professions will require it, but I am not sure if composition teachers should be the ones teaching it. I think it is equally imporatant to learn both. I think this piece and Daley's piece both bring up excilent points as to how important techonology is in our lives. I found this piece to be much more understandable and interesting than Daley's piece. Thinking About Multimodality made it more aparent how "visual compositions carry different kinds of meanings that words are not good at capturing". This was a point I had never thought of but it seems to be almost obvious to me now. The blogging article written by walker and Nardi opened my eyes to blogging. I have never read peoples personal blogs and until this article I never realized that people used blogs a online journal. I do see it as fitting in because it will help our class form a community and hopefully our classmates will comment on eachothers and it can be a new form of discussion. However, I don't see people in our class using it as an online journal/diary. Hopefully students will use it to their advantage and start a community instead of just doing it for class!