Photo used was Posted On Flickr by Robbert van Der Steeg
With the rhetorical situation the purpose of this postcard is to spread my definition of what digital writing is. The audience is anybody who uses digital writing. In terms of editing my image I cropped the picture to edit out the previous text on the photo. I then added text “digital writing to the photo.” I also added the sketch tool to the photo in order to bring a more human look to the digitized face.The last thing I did was fill the photo with light to brighten the image.I cited the photo by putting where and who posted the photo and hyper-linked it to show the source. It’s the best way to give credit as I can show the original work and you can see the difference from my finished product and the original.In terms of the meeting the rhetoric situation my audio file details different types of digital writing and identifies that as a whole communication is almost completely done through digital writing.
Reflecting back on the project I am most proud of using programs I had never used before in order to complete the project. Using photoshop and moviemaker to create my video was a good learning experience and these are two programs I can now use to assist in other classes or endeavors I may be involved in. Also using audacity was a new experience. Who knew that creating a audio file was so easy with this program. I had previously envisioned that this would be difficult.With regards to further expanding my project I felt like in 30 seconds I did a good job defining what digital writing is but being that it has many different definitions maybe I should have shortened what I believed digital writing to be in order to include audio clips of what others thought digital writing to be.With regards to the technologies I used photoshop and moviemaker like I stated above. It was required for us to edit the photos we chose and to put them into a video. For that reason these to programs were necessary to complete the project. Also I used audacity which was necessary for me to add my audio to the video.The problem I encountered was with photoshop and moviemaker at the beginning as I have never used them before. Especially with moviemaker I was forced to play with the different things it does in order to know how to create my video. Also watching tutorials was a big help.As a digital writer I learned that I am resourceful. In watching tutorials and playing with different programs I was able to learn on the fly in doing this project. If anything I learned that I am a pretty capable digital writer.Play was one course outcome I used in this project. I played with photoshop and moviemaker in order to learn the programs capabilities and to figure out specifically in photoshop what type of photo editing was available. Another course outcome i applied was multitasking. First defining digital writing, then shrinking it down into a 30 sec audio file all while learning how to use different programs in order to bring all my work together. The 3rd course outcome I used was collective intelligence. Our wikipedia page on digital writing was everyone’s collective thoughts to what digital writing was. I used the wiki page along with my own personal thoughts of what digital writing was in order to come up with the definition I used in my postcard.