Monday, May 11, 2009

So I've expanded and tried to be multimodal in my blog posts. The final frontier within this environment is audio. Here's a link to a msnbc podcast asking whether children need cell phones. I tried embedding it into blogger but my mind is a bit fried right now which illustrates an interesting point. People may default to the mode with which they have the most familiarity with for a given medium. As someone who came to pc first via word processors my default mode is text.

My quest for multimodally has definitely expanded my "vocabulary," there I go with text based references. Well at least I'm trying.

And a Classic and forerunner the Firefly from 2005


Verizon's Migo for ages 5-9 again in 2006


cell phones for children 4-8 from 2006


The world keeps on turning...

These high school student videos take a satirical look against and for cell phones in school. As the debate continues throughout school districts in the United States, students are voicing their concerns on youtube videos. A quick search of cell phones in schools and no cell phones in schools resulted in the videos linked above.