BE: Composing the Digital Self

Lab on Tuesday addressed creating titles for your webpage composition, inserting images, and creating rollovers – all very cool stuff. Thanks again to James for his introduction to the technology behind the scenes, but do remember that “composing” a web page reaches beyond managing the technology to considerations of audience, purpose, and the conventions of message. Have you searched representations of your professional expression online? Would you be able to point to two or three examples of web pages composed so as to speak to an audience of those with whom you will one day work? If you have not, let this be the next move you make in composing your own web site.

Remember, every composition is a writing about you – who you are, how you see the world, and what you see yourself becoming. Your web page can serve as a “front page” to the overall composition and a great place to begin when presenting yourself to others.

For Thursday: “The Social Life of Documents” is one of the most important reads of the semester in helping us to see the double action of documents. Watch for an understanding of this idea (and others) to unfold as you read, and be reminded that annotating a document can go a long way in helping a reader work through the information. Think of annotation as an abbreviated re-write in the margins of a page that both clarifies what was read in the force of summary and marks the text for an easy return for citation. Text are consumable, and critical thinking often think along these lines.

Just for the fun of it…

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