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EDU 307 Blog Post about the readings

 1. The first article by Tim Martin was very interesting because he raised the question about how important fictional children's books actually are. For the most part, these are the first books that children either read or have read to them; this is a staple in every child's education. I think that it is interesting that the best fictional children's books do not get the recognition that they deserve. 


2. The videos about what exactly counts as text were very interesting. Basically, I believe that text should always be accompanied by something, often images could do more than what text. And a combination of images and text (multimodal) would be the most effective for everyone. 

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This picture for example describes what multimodal can be without any words. 


3. I believe that the article by Brigid Alverson does a great job of arguing for Graphic Novels and it seems clear to me. Actually, in high school one of my history classes was taught directly through graphic novels, this made me more aware of the effect that pictures can actually have. Often times we rely on text, but what you can figure out from mostly pictures also says a lot. We were able to dissect for the frame of time and often the roles that the characters played based on their portrayal in the picture. 


4. Maisha Winns paper does a great job of identifying how literature can be viewed and expressed in many different ways. Depending on where you grow up and the social norms that are around you; literature can mean writing a book or it could be painting a picture that tells a big story on its own. It can also be the expression of one's self in front of other people as they "perform". I think it is important that we do not lock "literature" into a small box, instead, we should broaden the actual definition to make it more inclusive to what it entails. 


 


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