Creative Multimodal Portfolio

This report showcases a creative multimodal portfolio that reflects on the development of expertise, skills, and knowledge. It explores the role of an early childhood specialist, musical journey, pointillism, sensory awareness, dance/movement experience, and the arts in reflection. The report also discusses the importance of art in the development of young children and the theories behind it.

Creative Multimodal
Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
My Role as an Early Childhood Specialist.............................................................................1
Musical Journey......................................................................................................................3
Pointillism...............................................................................................................................4
Sensory awareness through re-imagining texts......................................................................6
The arts in Reflection.............................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Multimodal is basically the combination of two or more of the modes for the purpose to
create meaning. In context to the multimodal, it basically comprises of the posters, books, web
pages, text books, films and graphic novels as they require various modes for the purpose to
make the meaning. In this report, it comprises of the creative multimodal portfolio. The portfolio
basically comprises of the various objectives which involves critical reflection on the
development of the expertise, skills and knowledge. In addition to that, it comprises of the role as
an educator in the supporting of the creative process. In addition to that it showcases the ability
to develop the quality arts experiences. The Multimodal Portfolio comprises of the 6 experience
which comprises of the role as an Early Childhood specialist, musical journey, pointillism,
sensory awareness through reimaging texts, dance and movement experience and the arts in the
reflection.
MAIN BODY
My Role as an Early Childhood Specialist
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In context to my role as an early childhood educator, my role of the teacher does not end
through teaching the students but also comprises involving the parents so that there is a
consistency between what is being taught at the home or school as well. In context to teacher, it
not just to focus on the numeracy and reading but for me it was all about the experiential
learning. As s teacher, my role is very crucial as it helps in shaping the lives of the individuals. It
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also involves encouraging, inspiring and motivating a new generation of the learners and guiding
my children by making a positive influence in the world around them. For Children, these are
very essential in all the areas of the development and growth (Palaiologou, 2021).
With the right type of the learning, the learning environment helps in offering the children a
proper place with the others and the also gaining more growth in emotionally, mentally and the
cognitively. In reference to what makes me unique as a early childhood educator, is basically I
like to build strong relationships with the children and their parents(Kesäläinen and et.al, 2022).
Musical Journey
In context to Musical Journey, it is basically a flexible achievement systems that supports the
students in staying focused on their highest musical aspirations through developing their
independence and stimulating their creativity. In reference to my musical journey, my experience
of the musical journey was highly creative and original. With the help of the music along with
the narrative results in providing a new meaning to the music. The combination of music along
with the narration of the story provides the music new meaning (Ephgrave, 2018). In addition to
that, with the drama element in the story and the right and clear type of use of instruments for the
purpose to play the characters results in creating a amazing and soothing experience. Moreover,
the bird played by the flute was so cheerful and the three French Horns was domineering and
bold. During my entire musical journey , I felt so many emotions and I also felt a sense of
suspense, moments of happiness and joy and feeling afraid. In addition to that, I fully enjoyed
while listening to the story and also used my imagination for the purpose to create my own visual
interpretation of the story. While listening to the instruments and violin playing in the
background, I closed my eyes and listened to the sound that helps me in understanding about the
each character. In addition to that, I wrote down the words quickly and linked each word
according to the colour I saw in my mind(Shanker, 2018).
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Moreover, the bird played by the flute was so cheerful and the three French Horns was
domineering and bold. During my entire musical journey , I felt so many emotions and I also felt
a sense of suspense, moments of happiness and joy and feeling afraid. In addition to that, I fully
enjoyed while listening to the story and also used my imagination for the purpose to create my
own visual interpretation of the story. While listening to the instruments and violin playing in
the background, I closed my eyes and listened to the sound that helps me in understanding about
the each character. In addition to that, I wrote down the words quickly and linked each word
according to the colour I saw in my mind(Shanker, 2018).
Pointillism
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In context to Pointillism, it is basically a technique of painting where distinct and small dots
of the color are basically applied for the purpose to form or create a entire image. In my
experience, while I was preparing for my final piece of the pointillism art, I really felt so good
and super excited. In addition to that I decided to show up and express how I was feeling at that
particular moment and also showing up my own personal journey as a artistic and also I felt
really happy and had a feeling and emotion of cheerfulness and joy (Manero, 2021).
While creating a pointillism art, my inspiration was a very pretty and beautiful that I grew at
kinder. For my art, I choose the image of the sunflower in yellow colour which basically depicts
as the colour of fun, sunshine and laughter (Weiss, 2018). In reference to Artistic
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communication, it allows the individuals of all the ages to reach their deepest feelings and the
deepest thoughts. In addition to that, I decided to use paint as the medium. For this I choose the
blue paint and white paint and mixed them well on a pallet and also used a large ball of pom pom
which created a textured dot that looked like the sky. I personally loved the effect it created but it
was still lacking behind as compared to the sunflower art I made earlier.
Sensory awareness through re-imagining texts
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In context to Sensory awareness, it is the direct focus on the specific sensory aspect of the inner,
outer of the body environment (Matlin, Krief, Hopf and Mehta, 2021). In reference to sensory
awareness it not only involves responding to the characteristics of the environment but also
getting engaged in a sensory awareness with the help of paying attention to some sensory aspect.
In context to educators, they promote learning with the support of the sensory awareness and
provides exploratory and sensory experiences with the help of processed and natural materials. In
order to create sensory awareness, I used the sensory bottles which can be created with the babies
and there are so much different things that you can easily place inside (Kenqu, 2018).
In reference to the sensory experience, it basically comprises of different things such as
small objects, marbles and much more. In reference to sensory experience, it comprises of the
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major elements such as shapes of the bottles, Touch temperature of water and the texture of the
bottles. In addition to that it comprises of some sort of colour, things that basically float, put in
sparkles, different type of bottles in various colours. In my opinion, art is not only limited to
clay, paper, paint, pens etc but it basically also comprises of the movement, light and sound
which also depicts art. With the help of sensory play, it helped me a lot in learning about the
world and things surrounded by them through auditory discrimination, visual perception and
much more. With the help of sensory bottles, it was one of the great way for me to learn about
the various subjects which comprises of languages, math, reading, social skills and science. With
the help of sensory bottles, I felt so clam and relaxed (Oliveira, 2020).
Dance/Movement Experience: In context to Dance and movement activities these are
known as the gross motor activities which comprises of the actions, games or various activities
that helps in boosting the engagement of the large muscles of the body with the support of the
motor coordination. With the help of dance and movement experience, it helps me a lot in
making the children relax and calm. With the help of music, it makes the children calm and
happy. It also helps in stimulating the mind and calming down. In addition to that, the play music
which is associated with different movements that helps in feeling the little ones more joy and
fun.
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With the help of dance and movement, it plays a very important role in the development of
the children and teaches them and provide them learning experience of how to control and
coordinate their bodies and these movements helps them to develop spatial awareness. With the
help of children copying an adult or trying to learn a dance, it helps in understanding and
listening skills and results in much more improvement. In context to children, it is very important
to teach them about movements. In relation to children, the movements can be taught through
offering directed movement activities to do outdoors, providing kindergarteners and preschoolers
with the numerous sensory motor experiences, combining the music with the movement and
integrating a variety of gross motor activities.
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The arts in Reflection
In context to the arts in a reflection of society, it basically comprises of the various branches
of the painting, dance, literature, music and various other creative activities which basically
results in creating a significant influence on the education, society and religion (Dieterich-
Hartwell, Goodill, and Koch, 2020). For a student, the art is considered to be a very important
part for the children specially during their early development. According to the various
researchers, it has been believed that the art activities develop brain capacity in the early
childhood. In addition to that, art engages children’ sense in the open ended play and also results
in supporting the development of various skills which involves the following skills:
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Multisensory skills: In context to the multisensory instruction, it is basically a method of
teaching that engages more than one sense at a time. It basically comprises of the movement,
sight, hearing and touch gives kids more than one method to connect with what they are learning
(Aithal, Karkou and Kuppusamy, 2020).
Cognitive skills: In context to Cognitive Skills, these skills are basically the ones which are used
by the brain for the purpose to learn, think, read, reason, remember and pay attention. In context
to cognitive skill development in children, it basically comprises of the progressive building of
the learning skills which comprises of the thinking, attention and the memory. In addition to
that, these crucial skills enables the children to process sensory information and eventually learn
to the remember, evaluate, analyse and making comparisons and also understanding the effect
and the cause (Bernstein, 2019).
Social Emotional Skills: In context to Social Emotional skills ,these are highly essential for the
purpose to establish connection with others. It helps in managing the emotions, feeling empathy
and building healthy relationships. In reference to Children, the social and emotional
development begins early in life. This basically starts when the children start to have deep
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knowledge and understanding about who they are, what they are actually feeling and what they
expect when they interact with other.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that Creative Multimedia Plays a very important
role and in addition to that, the report helps in critical reflection of the expertise, skills and
knowledge development. In addition to that, it helps in demonstrating and understanding the role
of the educator and their importance in supporting the creative process. In addition to that, it
helps in showcasing the ability to develop the quality arts experiences. In addition to that, the
basic information on the development of the art in the young children. In addition to that, it
involves theories of the children art and also involves the cognitive, cognitive development,
perceptual delineation, psychonalytic and perceptual theories. As per the viewpoint of the
cognitive theory, the children draws what they know.
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