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The
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University is located on the
top right ...then look near the center of my airplane window digital
photo and a little above the park - about an inch from the edge.
The flow of ideas, precise language, specific examples, and grammatical clarity along with partnering with students to ensure they walk away better writers ...whatever it takes to reach the student is my ultimate objective. As the instructor, it is a duty to ensure and instill in students a willingness to learn. And, utilizing digital skills falls into this category. Having more knowledge is the bottom line – because more equals more, more diversity, independence and accuracy – and mo’ better knowledge from the wisdom of the crowds. The great experience of expressing oneself is the ultimate exercise of tapping into our creative nature. The discipline of writing produces subjectivity, and it shapes our world to discuss its shifting discourse. Writing has become digital, visual and audio centered, and teaching composition is now about breaking out of routine, and being a learner too.
The essay as a digital composition tool expresses idea, opinions, puts is all in writing, a shape and it becomes concrete. The purpose of composition also is to tell a story, share ideas, to hone conversation skills, vertical thinking, self-revision, and reading and writing, which are inextricable and cannot be separated. And, knowledge of grammar is always important - so what do we want students to learn about writing again? Maybe how to be a prosumer - a producer and a consumer. I appreciate Professor Tom Peele's guidance in achieving this aim to support the modern composure and student, teacher and professional ...with a digital technology influence. Although students (this writer included) sometimes find multimodal tasks challenging because of the technologies needed to learn and the methodologies ...the end result creates a broader scope and more open-minded producers of new knowledge. A point being made here also is that multimodal tasks are not easier for students, but more thoughts and actions are needed to complete them making digital technology more fulfilling. This would sum up a great lesson learned this semester in computers and composition.
My end goal is to help the student and myself
feel empowered, to write more textually authentic and to construct
original knowledge. Bottom line - when students are asked to explore
identity throughout digital writing platforms and all of its complexities
and tensions ...this encourages invaluable personal growth for the student and
teacher.
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