Literacy cannot be seen as only a linguistic accomplishment anymore and there is no longer the close association between print and learning Multimodality can be seen as an eclectic approach modal affordances: what is possible to express easily. The metalanguage of multimodalities must be taught and understood, as choice of mode can affect pedagogic design and interpretation: the teacher's choice of mode shapes the knowledge or even interpretation. New possibilities.
Jewtii describes approaches to using multimodality , specifically cdrom in a classroom. Description of approach, genre and mode . technical terms ot analyse the images: inclusion of various types of multimodal images. Transformation of original text.
Description of some of the semiotic resources students use in decoding multimodal texts, in this case the graphic novel. Students seem unaware of the but uses a range of resources (colour, angle, panels, perspective text) in decoding the texts