The most important point I took from this section is that School has traditionally focused on monomodal alphabetic text; however, with the affordances of technology, we should be emphasizing multimodalities to stimulate learning.

I think one of the most important concepts from this video is that the discussion of literacies as multimodal is that it's not trying to contradict previous notions of literacy, but rather expand on them in a way that’s more relevant to our digital world that uses multimodal meaning. It’s also worth emphasizing that this approach is more relevant to a world of diversity, where we recognize it as an important factor in everything we do.

Design = meaning making as a dynamic , creative and intentional process. We’re born into available designs, communities that have resources and values for making meaning.

We also design meaning as we consume meaning making designs to fit our purposes. It seems to be a reflective process.

This reminds me of music videos and they way they arguable incorporate all 6 Components of Meaning Making: Linguistic, Visual, Audio, Gestural, Spatial and Multimodal patterns

This section along with Jenna's comments about power makes me think about reading instruction at my school. We don't often have professional development, but when we do, the instruction is often limited to monomodal print based instruction. With the exception of AP, and one rhetoric unit for Juniors, we don't often discuss multimodal features with digital texts. I'm interested in collecting some resources to better teach students to analyze and construct multimodal texts.