- How do you invasion the rhetorical situation for this project? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? What are relative aspects of the context?
- I envisioned the rhetorical situation as described in class. I thought that this project would serve as a preview/overview for the class. It would act as a more up to date class description that one might see in the catalog. The audience would be the same as those who might wish to take the class (those who might not be familiar with the term digital writing). The purpose would be to introduce and slightly describe what digital writing is. The relative aspects of this context serve almost the same as a maybe a movie preview or a marketing advertisement.
- Describe at least 3 ways in which you edited the image you used for your audio postcard.
- I edited the image many ways with the text boxes that would coincide with the statements. In my slideshow, I formatted the picture to best fit the slide. Each of the text boxes were also edited. They all carried the same font and semi-transparent background. Also, YouTube has a lighting feature that enhances it in a clearer manner. I used it as well.
- What elements of your audio postcard were you required to provide some form of citation. How did you cite it? Why does that citation format best meet the needs of your rhetorical situation?
- I have cited the image in the YouTube description. This best meets the needs of my rhetorical situation because it is appropriate for the Video sharing website.
- Why and how do at least 3 aspects of your audio file (at least one of which must be an aspect of the audio/aural nature of the file) meet the rhetoric situation?
- I feel audio examples meet my rhetorical situation because it gives everyday examples of what the audience may use that also serve as forms of digital writing.
- The audio also gives examples of what is not digital writing. This serves a distinctive purpose because the concept of digital writing is so broad. It shows the overwhelming influence that digital writing has on today.
- The audio itself proves to be a form of digital writing because the words come up as digital text throughout the video.
- Why and how do at least 3 aspects of your image (at least one of which much be an edited aspect of the image) meet the rhetorical situation?
- The image shows a view of the world. In this way, the idea of digital writing is already being associated in a broad understanding. It shows that digital writing help create the world that we now live in.
- The lines on the image show how different parts of the world are now connected, which would not have been possible before the digital age.
- The text and text boxes serves to guide the reader and listener in a way that only digital writing can. This combination of audio and visual enhances the understandability reaching two senses at the same time (hopefully at the same time).
In the Reflective Letter you will answer the following questions:
- What are you most proud of in the entire project? I am most proud of how the project came out… aka that it actually worked. I had the idea initially as the project was being introduced and was glad that it was able to make it all the way through without major alterations. Even though it took a different route that planned, to see it in its final state is a good feeling.
- What do you wish you had time to further expand, include, or revise in the project? I wish that I had further time to elaborate on the concept of digital writing and give a more conceptual definition than the examples may have given. I wish that I could somehow time the project to reach exactly 30 seconds. I don’t know exactly what went wrong. The timing that I had in SoundCloud met the limit as well as the slideshow in Keynote. I would have also like to use some music to detract from the monotony of a (particularly mine) voice.
- What technologies did you use to complete this project? Why were they appropriate? As stated earlier, I used SoundCloud to record and download the audio portion to use. It was the easiest way for me to record and understand the timing. The sound graph showed me which points were emphasized through loudness and points were I could stand to increase/decrease my pace. It also helped me in Keynote when I needed to make the transitions for the text boxes. The timing of the voices and the structure showed exact times for the new word boxes. From Keynote and SoundCloud, I moved them over to iMovie which combined the two into a file that could be uploaded into YouTube.
- When did you get stuck while working on the project? How did you overcome your problem? I became stuck when I couldn’t figure out how to combine the files from Keynote and SoundCloud. I overcame this problem through some guesswork, but most effectively from the advice of my intelligent professor.
- What did you learn about yourself as a digital writer? I learned that I am still rather novice in my skills at writing digitally. It also takes a lot of creative thinking and guesswork to come to an effective product. There is not an exact science for there are many variables and preferences to think off. It also helps to use compatible software.
- Discuss at least three of the course outcomes you feel you worked towards with this assignment. Provide evidence of your learning by pointing to specific aspects of the project. I feel that I have learned a great deal when it comes to making digital writing, not necessarily writing. The writing part was particularly easier, but the digital part requires a certain skill in problem solving and a patience involved when roadblocks occur. However, the more innovative and intuitive a product is increases the user-ability and the overall appearance.