Teachers' use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs)
| Multimodal layers | Data n | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Technologies – hardware | IWBs: 6 | IWBs: SMARTboard, Camtasia |
| Technologies – software | Visual: 5 | Visual: digital photos, videos, YouTube, Flipchart |
| Unnamed: 4 | Unnamed: DOC files, notebooks, websites, polls | |
| Technologies' functional properties | Primary function: 4 | Primary: displaying content, handwriting recognition, screen captures |
| Secondary function: 4 | Secondary: linking to documents, flipping back to recover material, storing/embedding in files, hiding and revealing, layering to manipulate content, drag-and-drop to focus on salient features of representations | |
| Tertiary function: 1 | Tertiary: spotlight function to highlight important parts of contents | |
| Technologies' semiotic properties | 8 | Highlighting, colour, shading, size |
| Modes of representation | Auditory: 5 | Auditory: discuss, talk |
| Visual: 3 | Visual: images, graphs | |
| Multiplicity of modes: 3 | Multiplicity of modes: combination of auditory-linguistic-visual-gestures | |
| Linguistic: 1 | Linguistic: writing on screen | |
| Gestures: 1 | Gestures: pointing (at screen) | |
| Activities | Learning design: 5 | Learning design: teacher and student shared design |
| Instructional design: 1 | Instructional design: presentation/demonstration/development of teaching content |
| Multimodal layers | Data | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Technologies – hardware | IWBs: 6 | |
| Technologies – software | Visual: 5 | |
| Unnamed: 4 | ||
| Technologies' functional properties | Primary function: 4 | |
| Secondary function: 4 | ||
| Tertiary function: 1 | ||
| Technologies' semiotic properties | 8 | Highlighting, colour, shading, size |
| Modes of representation | Auditory: 5 | |
| Visual: 3 | ||
| Multiplicity of modes: 3 | ||
| Linguistic: 1 | ||
| Gestures: 1 | ||
| Activities | Learning design: 5 | |
| Instructional design: 1 |
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