Video #1 is a short, helpful explanation on the overall concept of multiliteracies. It summarizes and simplifies ideas that come directly from the report by the New London Group. One particularly helpful explanation provided is that of synaesthesia, which is when a communicator represents information in all six modes of communication. These modes are oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile, and spatial. Furthermore, the video gives advice on how to apply multiliteracies to pedagogy.
Video #2 is another discussion of the London Group’s conclusions on multiliteracies. It addresses the basic concerns that lead to why multiliteracies are important to consider (different modes of meaning/communication, varying cultures and identities, etc.). The narrator uses her own form of media, the video itself, to describe how she’s applying the modes of meaning. Like the first video, she gives suggestions on how teachers might incorporate this in their pedagogy, but she does so in a much shorter, simpler way.
While I disliked the animation of this third video, it provides useful information that the other two videos lack. It features the setting of a classroom, which strengthens the message of how multiliteracies are intended to be applied in education. It presents multiliteracies in a basic, easy-to-understand manner that uses visually appealing bullet points. The video also provides a real-life example of an Australian curriculum that incorporates the pedagogy of teaching multiliteracies.
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