Exploring Multimodal Composition in Collaborative Digital Learning Environments

• In Event: IVLA - Visualizing Learning

Short Description

This paper describes the design and implementation of an afterschool program, in which middle school students collaborated in small groups to create multimodal science fictions. Each group member selected one of the following roles: writer (developing the narrative), scientist (integrating science), and designer (creating multimodal representations). The results suggest that the story narratives and the multimodal representations can drive or complement each other in different ways due to group interaction dynamics.

Authors

• shiyan jiang, university of miami

• Smith Elizabeth Blaine, University of Miami

• Ji Shen, university of miami