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429: Don't Miss this Essential Lesson on Multimodality
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- Jun 24, 2026
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Summary
Recently I was invited to give a poetry workshop on a reflection day at a local school. They wanted the writing element of the day to help students understand themselves better, so I chose to provide a workshop based on George Ella Lyon's poem, "Where I'm From." You know I love that workshop. Together, we looked at how details bring poetry to life, brainstormed images about their childhood experiences, explored how various creators have interpreted the "I am From" prompt to create videos, paintings, photo essays, poems, and combinations thereof. Then I invited them to work multimodaly as they knit together their images with color and imagery. But I had never worked with them before, and none of them had heard of multimodal communication, though they're surrounded with it everyday. I realized I had left out a crucial step in the workshop, to help them see that multimodal communication would go well beyond "decorating" their poem or underlining all the lines in color. So how can we introduce this concept to students? How can we help them see that text, images, audio, and video can all convey such very different shades of meaning in communication? This week on the pod, let's talk about introducing multimodality, and showing kids what works and what doesn't. Be sure to grab the free download that goes along with this episode, a slideshow full of examples you can share with your students. You can sign up to have me send it over totally free right here . You'll also be subscribed to my teaching idea emails, though of course you can unsubscribe at any time. OK, let's dive in. Grab your copy of the multimodality introduction slideshow: https://spark-creativity.kit.com/bdde614049 Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast . Snag three free w…