Noelle's Blogopedia

  Hello and welcome back! This blog will cover what was talked about in unit two which was multimodal composition. While we covered multiple ways to achieve multimodal composition like turning school lessons into games like Mr. Cullum in the video "A Touch of Greatness" or making literature engaging, my favorite was process drama. And one thing that blows my mind is how much improv can help students connect with readings. It was an article we read in class written by Lauren Esposito. As I said in my discussion post on the 22nd, improv scares THE LIVING CRAP out of me. Improv is supposed to be fun, thinking off the top of your head, but to me, that sounds absolutely terrifying. I am not good with thinking off my feet and being put on the spot like that is so much pressure. I am not good under pressure. But after reading this article, I learned so much and was extremely surprised.  Improvisation is used far more often than just for theater and acting. It gives students a differ...

  Unit one focused on introducing multimodality. Which honestly, was a word that I had only heard a few times and barely knew the meaning of. But after this unit, I feel like I understand it more. Multimodality can be accomplished in so many different ways, way more than I thought. Some ways that it can be accomplished are through websites, podcasts, videos, graphic novels, collages, and many others. One example that we really touched base on in class was graphic novels. Now, I never really got into graphic novels that much, mainly because I like picturing what was going on in a book myself. What I never realized was how complex it could be to read and fully understand a graphic novel. When we read the article How to Read Graphic Novels as Literature for September 1st, my eyes felt like they were flying over the words but my brain couldn't work fast enough to understand what I was looking at.  This is exactly what I felt as I was reading that article. While I understood the ba...

 HELLO!!!! My name is Noelle Paratore. I am a sophomore here and I am majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing. I am from the extremely small town of Johnstown, PA where there is absolutely nothing to do there but eat pizza. We have a lot of pizza joints there. In my free time, I like to read or watch TV. Recently I have been obsessed with the shows S.W.A.T and Love is Blind. I know, so similar, right? But what I most love to do is spend time with my family and friends, they are most important to me. Some fun facts about me are that I am OBSESSED with cows and I love sunsets! I am keeping this blog for my Writing for Non-Print Media class, to give a little overview of the units we discuss in class.  Now please enjoy this video of cows mooing for 20 minutes :)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUu8s5NyBQ