The Editors: Carey Jewitt is a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London, and an editor of the journal Visual Communication. She has written widely on multimodal learning and teaching. Her recent publications include Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom (2001) with G. Kress, J. Ogborn, and C. Tsatsarelis and A Handbook of Visual Analysis (2001) co-edited with T. van Leeuwen.Gunther Kress is Professor of Education and English at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has an interest in the interrelations in contemporary texts of different modes of communication and their effects on forms of learning and knowing. His recent publications include Reading Images (1996) with T. van Leeuwen; Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy (1997); Multimodal Discourse (2001) with T. van Leewuen; and Literacy in the New Media Age (2002).

• Contents: Gunther Kress/Carey Jewitt: Introduction – Diane Mavers: Communicating Meanings through Image Composition, Spatial Arrangement and Links in Primary School Student Mind Maps – Carey Jewitt: Computer-Mediated Learning: The Multimodal Construction of Mathematical Entities on Screen – Andrew Burn/David Parker: Tiger’s Big Plan:Multimodality and the Moving Image – Gemma Moss: Putting the Text Back into Practice: Junior-age Non-fiction as Objects of Design – Charmian Kenner: Embodied Knowledge: Young Children’s Engagement with the Act of Writing – Lesley Lancaster: Beginning at the Beginning: How a Young Child Constructs Time Multimodally – Pippa Stein: The Olifantsvlei Fresh Stories Project: Multimodality, Creativity and Fixing in the Semiotic Chain – Kate Pahl: Children’s Text-Making at Home: Transforming Meaning across Modes – Anton Franks: Palmers’ Kiss: Shakespeare, School Drama and Semiotics – Gunther Kress: Genres and the Multimodal Production of ‘Scientificness’.