Is there text in class? in school? in life?

Yes!
Text is everywhere. From the first day of class syllabus to the final exam, we are receiving text. I read about 50 pages a night for my classes, and I know i'm not the only one. We are constantly asked to read something, analyze something, interpret something from text. They are called textbooks for a reason; they are filled with text. Sometimes tiny, frustrating text. Not only do we absorb text in the classroom and at school, it is known that we are hit with thousands of advertisements everyday. A billboard, a brochure, a commercial, it's all text. I have still not even mentioned the obvious text we recieve in everyday life. Reading the news, whether in hand or online, we are still receiving text. Checking our Facebooks, Twitter, and emails, it's all text.

We are surrounded by text. It's everywhere we look, whether we actively notice it or not.

Multi-Modal Reflection

After watching multimodal essays in class on Thursday, I can see there is no "right" way to go about the project. I can appreciate an assignment with loose guidelines that allows the students ot be creative. It was fun brainstorming ideas with my group to try and come up with something that will be both interesting and fun.

We decided we wanted to have people in our project instead of just words, so we're doing a series of interviews with different generations of Lubbockites, asking "What is the one material thing you cannot live without?"

We hope to find some correlations between the item they choose and their generation, or at least see some similarities and differences and what people truly think they need.

Should be fun!