From Multimodal Writing to Digital Innovation at Indiana University Bloomington
When I first introduced Adobe Express into my undergraduate writing courses, I wasn’t just looking for a new tool, I was continuing a journey for me as an educator: further reimagining what it means to write and to communicate in a digitally saturated world. As a professor of digital rhetoric and strategic director of generative AI faculty initiatives at Indiana University, I’ve long believed that writing is more than text. It’s multimodal. It’s visual. It’s experiential.
Why multimodal writing?
Go beyond text on paper.
Enhance traditional essays by combining writing with images, graphics, video, and data.
Bring academic work to life.
Publish research papers, essays, and narratives as interactive web pages to make them more engaging and extend their reach.
Create with ease.
Build professional, multimodal projects in just a few clicks with generative AI features.
Work across disciplines.
Capture projects from any field or methodology using the web page feature in Adobe Express.
Transform student work.
Turn five-paragraph essays into interactive, visually dynamic experiences.
Share effortlessly.
You and your students can share and collaborate on multimodal projects with ease.
Sample prompt and rubric
The project is designed to help students develop critical thinking and communication skills by exploring an issue in depth and then delivering their findings in a structured and engaging way.
They’ll use Adobe Express to create a multimodal web page that conveys clear, credible ideas based on evidence from a variety of digital media.
Learning Kit highlights
See what your students can do with Adobe tools.
