Maria's Blog - (ENGL 235)

 What is Digital Composition?? Before i learned what it was in class, i had no idea. Well, i mean, i had an idea but not a great idea.  To me, digital composition made me think of collages! Which, i actually made recently! In my intercultural communications class i actually assembled my own identity collage, which was a very quick and easy way to share who i was as a person in a digestible and easy way. I actually loved this assignment, and i had to write an essay to go along with it, which i also adored as well!  Digital composition also made me think of things like photoshop, and digital art, which i also inidge in the latter of! Ive dont photoshop before in school, and to be honest... i absolutely hated it. I despised it. Completely. But, digital art has always been so much fun for me, and i shared a digital piece of art i created for a different assignment in school in an earlier blog post!  Digital composition was a lot of ideas in my head of what it could be, ...

What do blogging and podcasting add to a classroom? Personally, i think a lot!  This blog will be a little different, because i want to talk about assignments and things you can do to engage with students when it comes to podcasting and blogging, because i actually really really love these two tools in the classroom, and believe they can be highly useful in how we teach literature today!  For context, i have never blogged before this class, but i have listened and engaged in podcasts for a longer part of my life, and i greatly enjoy them! However, i've never used either of these tools in the classroom before, and i truly believe that my teachers had wasted potential in using these mediums to teach and engage with their students. And I'm going to share why i feel that way with you all!  Podcasting and Blogging are for everyone!  Lets start with blogs, shall we?  Blogging is very easy to do, and all you need is some form of technology to do it, which makes bloggin...