'In regards to these two articles, how do you think the university views multimedia authoring?'

I think WSU is a little confused about multimedia authoring (as are most people, including me!). Both articles touch on how difficult it is to interpret and categorize most kinds of media, especially when different types become combined. The Kress article especially stresses how media showing pictures and text has not been organized into genres, and without that, people remain confused about how to look at and interpret multimodal works. WSU is trying to use multimedia, but I feel like they’re at the point where they’re focusing on the “at” and not yet the “through.” For example, they have all this nice equipment in a lot of the buildings and projectors in every room and tons of computer labs which looks nice from an outside point of view, but once you actually are going to WSU and have to use these things, you realize they are not as up to date as you think they would be. MyWSU and eLearning are both really slow and hard to use, and when I lived in the dorms there was a program called Cisco Clean Access we had to use to log on to the internet that did not work very well with Windows XP. WSU is trying to incorporate multimedia, especially in the English department where every English class I’ve taken has had a visual assignment of some sort, but I don’t think they really know where they’re going with it yet. I think WSU views multimedia authoring as an important, essential thing, they just haven’t figured out exactly how to teach and incorporate it into the university. I think WSU is about where the articles suggest most people are at as far as viewing multimedia authoring.