Jewitt, C. (2002) ‘The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English’, Visual Communication, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 171–95.
In this reading Jewitt comments on the use of image and writing in a CD-ROM version of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She also discusses the inherent tension in schools as they promote new technology but test students through traditional technology.
Jewitt, C. (2008) ‘Multimodality and Literacy in school classrooms’, AERA Review of Research in Education, vol. 32, pp. 241–67.
In this article, Jewitt reviews research into multimodality and literacy in the classroom, and asks what these changes mean for being literate in contemporary society, where digital media are embedded in everyday literacy practices. Jewitt argues that the time for associating learning primarily with language and print literacy is over.
Multimodal analysis of hypertext
If you are particularly interested in further exploring the multimodal analysis of hypertext, then you might find the following reading helpful:
Lemke, J. (2005) ‘Multimedia genres and traversals’, Folia Linguistica, vol. 39, no. 1–2, pp. 45–56.