Students' use of PCs
| Multimodal layers | Data na | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Technologies –hardware | Personal computers: 29 | PCs: Desktop computers, laptops, unnamed computers |
| Technologies – software | Visual: 30 | Visual: iMovie, Photoshop, TED talks, Google Hangouts, YouTube, Pinterest |
| Linguistic: 23 | Linguistic: Wordle, PowerPoint, Wikis, blogs | |
| Unnamed/other: 15 | Unnamed/other: web pages | |
| Multiplicity of modesb: 14 | Multiplicity of modes: VoiceThread, Glogster, StoryKit | |
| Auditory: 8 | Auditory: GarageBand, Audacity, podcasts | |
| Technologies' functional properties | Primary function: 15 | Primary: record, scan, display on screen, mouse/voiceover, keyboard, insert, import, transfer |
| Secondary function: 13 | Secondary: paste, edit/cut, hyperlink, navigate, bookmarks, pinning, hotkeys, zoom function | |
| Tertiary function: 5 | Tertiary: manipulate visual display (toolbar), effects (speeding up/slowing down), typographic style | |
| Technologies' semiotic properties | 25 | Colour, background, font, typographic elements, graphics, space, layout, shape |
| Modes of representation | Visual: 30 | Visual: images, moving images, animations, photographs, graphs |
| Linguistic: 22 | Linguistic: word clouds, writing | |
| Multiplicity of modesc: 18 | Multiplicity of modes: combination of auditory-linguistic-visual-gestures | |
| Auditory: 16 | Auditory: dialogue, music, sound effects | |
| Gestures: 4 | Gestures: gesticulating, indicating with hands | |
| Activities | Collaboration: 20 | Collaboration: sharing, joint production |
| STEM: 19 | STEM: mathematical content and rules, science | |
| Literacy: 18 | Literacy: writing/reading literature | |
| Individual work: 11 | Individual work: managing tasks and assignments separately |
| Multimodal layers | Data | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Technologies –hardware | Personal computers: 29 | |
| Technologies – software | Visual: 30 | |
| Linguistic: 23 | ||
| Unnamed/other: 15 | ||
| Multiplicity of modesb: 14 | ||
| Auditory: 8 | ||
| Technologies' functional properties | Primary function: 15 | |
| Secondary function: 13 | ||
| Tertiary function: 5 | ||
| Technologies' semiotic properties | 25 | Colour, background, font, typographic elements, graphics, space, layout, shape |
| Modes of representation | Visual: 30 | |
| Linguistic: 22 | ||
| Multiplicity of modesc: 18 | ||
| Auditory: 16 | ||
| Gestures: 4 | ||
| Activities | Collaboration: 20 | |
| STEM: 19 | ||
| Literacy: 18 | ||
| Individual work: 11 |
Note(s): aRefers to number of mentioned examples in the articles (i.e. not number of articles)
bSoftware where more than one modality is foregrounded in use
cHumans' representations where people clearly place emphasis on the use of more than one modality
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