Mode Project Tools: Some possible media tools you might explore to compose with...

Linguistic Mode

Tools capable of visually representing alphabetic text, like:

-Typewriters

-Stamps

-Paint, pencil, pen, chalk

-Fogged mirrors

-Stickers (here's how to make one at the FabLab!)

Tools capable of capturing spoken word:

-Voice recorders

-Voice to text software

-Voice/sound in video + video captioning

Twine text-based interactive stories

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Gestural Mode

Bodies!

-Communicating with ASL

-Dancing/moving

-Gestures & facial expressions

Tools for representing or altering facial expressions like photography, drawing, Snapchat filters

Technologies operated through movement (like the Mio Armband at the Fab Lab or music/phone control apps) or touch or that give haptic feedback

Oculus rift/VR (visit the tech hub!)

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Aural Mode

Audacity

Apps for particular kinds of sound-based productions like:

-podcasts: Anchor

-music: Garage Band  (FabLab tutorials here)

Soundcloud

Musical instruments

Noisemakers

Noise (app)

Voicechanger.io

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Spatial Mode

Anything that enables you to organize objects or people in space...

-like the layout of a webpage, brochure, poster, diorama, room, city, etc.

Maps do that...

-NatGeo Mapmaker app

-Create a Google Map

-Map My Run

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Visual Mode

Tools that help you create things that others can see, where you can play with layout, style, size, perspective, framing, color etc. Many of the tools listed under other modes would fit that bill, especially those under spatial and gestural. Get creative.

You could consider...

Visualizing data (inspo here)

Stop motion videos (why not?)

Traditional or modern visual art techniques

Fashion design

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