All About Multimodal Literacy: an Empower Your Learning Module

It’s no secret that I find value in producing open educational resources and walking the walk alongside my students. Over the last few years, I’ve been using Adobe Express and Canva — my favorite teaching tools for cultivating creativity in my general education courses — to produce dynamic materials that serve as windows into my teaching.

This spring, I was a finalist for the FACET Innovate Award in the Creative Uses of Online Tools category for one of the first installments in my Empower Your Learning module series.

The FACET Innovate Awards serve two important purposes that promote FACET’s mission. The awards recognize faculty who bring passion, innovation, and creativity to the classroom to promote student success. It also helps FACET share and disseminate best practices in teaching for the benefit of the entire IU community. 

The purpose of the Multimodal Literacy module is to introduce students to multimodal literacy, a necessary step towards empowering students’ communication skills and creativity in our digital world.

By transforming everyday teaching into clickable artifacts, this custom-built series of webpages can be shared and embedded across learning management systems, making it as much a tool for students as a resource for other faculty looking to support their own students’ multimodal literacy.

Interested in hearing more about making evidence of your teaching visible? This work is at the heart of Branding Your Teaching Excellence, a framework and professional development iniatiative I developed with my colleague Miranda Rodak. Learn more here.