48. Multimodal writing frames

When Tim Ryland was here working with us last year, Sarah his lovely assistant, talked about and showed us multi-model writing frames. A multi-modal writing frame allows you to use PowerPoint in presentation viewing mode AND add text into text boxes. Normally when you are viewing a PowerPoint presentation and you want to add text you have to Esc from the presentation and go back into construction mode. I have been working with Year 1 children creating a toy alphabet with “definitions / descriptions” of various toys and Year 2 creating a list of circus words and a circus alphabet. We have used the multi- model writing frame, so the children can view the presentation, scrolling through from letter to letter AND adding words if they wish. The how to is in Tim Rylands locked page at the top of his blog. While converting this presentation to html code for the blog, sadly the Alphabet letters have turned into squares of colour. The presentation starts at A and proceeds through each letter of the alphabet. Next post the how to for embedding your PowerPoint presentations into your blogs.