Multimodal Guide

All CWR courses have at least one multimodal component. This page will help you learn more about multimodality, and will include links to videos and how-to guides for using the various digital tools you might want to pursue for your multimodal project.

What is Multimodality?

Literally, “multimodal” means more than one mode. For your purposes, that means the process of changing the form of an idea you’ve written in an essay.

Multimodal composition asks you to think “outside the box”—in other words, you must make rhetorical considerations beyond static words on a printed page.
Multimodal composition helps you develop a better sense of a real audience—it’s easier for you to conceptualize the audience for a video or a podcast than an audience for a typographic essay.
Multimodal composition gives you more a versatile and real-world skill set that is applicable outside of college.
Multimodal composition forces you to “remediate” content. Remediation is everywhere—think about online newspapers, or e-books. We now see remediated content remediated further—think about “video podcasts.”

The Machine is Us/ing Us, by Michael Wesch (Kansas State University)

Multimodal Composition at Ole Miss

Multimodal projects vary widely by course and instructor. You may be asked to remix your writing in a number of ways, through everything from video to audio to dramatic interpretation. The materials on this page will help you learn the digital resources you may need to use.

Recording Webcam Video

For instructions on recording your webcam video, please click the links below. The iMovie and Live MovieMaker guides are video, while the Youtube guide is a link to Youtube’s help page.

iMovie

Live MovieMaker

YouTube

Flip Digital Video Cameras

Some classes make use of the CWR’s Flip video cameras. If you choose to use our cameras instead of your smart phone, here are some simple instructions to get you started.

Using the FlipCam

Using FlipShare

Other Resources