The website that we went to was http://www.channel4.com/. This was a very visual page with various moving pictures and text and it took a while to take in everything on the page!The navigation has many possibilities and there
were endless links which we could of chosen.
To start with we clicked on a large picture of the big brother eye. This is the icon that represents the channel 4 reality tv show Big Brother, a programme that we were all interested in, so for us it was the one that stood out the most.
The icon then took us to the big brother page which was mainly pictures with little written text. Out of the images available we clicked on the gallery link and were able to scroll through various pictures taken in the house of housemates performing tasks.Each image from the gallery had its own small witty caption at the bottom.
After scrolling though the gallery we clicked on a small box to the right of the pictures, which took us to a page where you could click on different images to watch video clips. We clicked on this because the thought of watching a video clip interested us and we wanted to find out more.
We clicked on one of the film clips which then opened a seperate window. The film clip took a few minutes to load and showed us televison adverts before we actually got to see any big brother footage. The film clip added a great multi modal element to the website.
This page could have many teaching implications as there are many images and ways of presenting information. It teaches children about multimodal texts in a format that they can understand and relate to. However, as always when using the internet there are many issues with having to censor sites, and they should be thoroughly checked before children are allowed to explore them.
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