I had a dream about you last night while folded up and tucked away. I saw you walking toward me, breathless and wide-eyed. You looked as though you recognized me, but thought you'd seen a ghost. For one moment we knew each other. We remembered all the space of ages and what it meant to be everything and nothing. We poured into one another and danced, spinning endlessly as though our bodies were finally perfect and free. Perhaps I was inside you all along. Perhaps, it was your dream, not mine.
Wow! These are AMAZING! The integration of visual, auditory, and your written text are spellbinding! They made me think of the article I read today by Paul Duncum: "Visual Culture Isn't Just Visual: Multiliteracy, Multimodality and Meaning" (2004). He says, "...it is necesarry to acknowledge that no matter how important the visual characteristics of contemporary cultural sites are...they all involve other sign systems and appeal to multiple perceptual systems" (p. 253); that "multiliteracy does not involve just the abilities to interpret a picture, write a poem, calculate distance, or play a musical instrument" (p. 253) but the ability to understand and appreciate how those distinct modes interact and that "one does not read the language and then the pictures and then listen to the sounds; rather, one takes them in as a gestalt, a whole all at once. This then in the challenge of multimodality for education" (p. 259). Your post illustrates what Duncum said BEAUTIFULLY. May I use it as an exemplar in the course I am designing? I will certainly credit you! I could spend weeks trying to devise an exemplar of this quality and still fall short! AWESOME! Just AWESOME!!
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