Whether you consider yourself a Digital Design Jedi Master or a Young Padawan with much to learn, you totally possess digital literacy skills. This assignment asks you to reflect on – and to reflect visually through images – how you have become digitally literate and to communicate your strengths as a consumer and producer of emerging media.
You’ve undoubtedly had important experiences using digital technologies that continue, in some way, to inform your current digital practices. Now, you’re being asked to reflect on those foundational experiences and create a text that documents and shares one or more of them. In short, your exigence is the need to understand better the past in order to show the way it’s shaped your current practices.
- Start by looking back at your Digital Jedi Results post and begin generating a list of important experiences with digital technologies, including the important details that mark those experiences as memorable (in good and/or bad ways).
- After you compile your list and reflect on it, select the moment or set of connected moments that tells the most interesting and insightful narrative about your digital composing journey.
- Upon selecting your two or three moments of digital literacy, you will consider the possible ways to use narrative, analysis, and photography to communicate how you arrived at the particular literacies you bring to this course.
- In a series of two-five selfies, document these moments and include with each photo, the story and analysis of how these experiences shaped you. Get creative, be silly, think substantively!
We will be remixing these projects into our personal brand logos for this course, FYI!
Final Selfie Essay: 2-5 photos 1000 – 1200 words
Writer’s Memo: 500-750 words
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