Unit 6 Reflection Blog - Digital Composition

 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, but i also missed a lot of things. 

From the article we read in early november, digital composition means video games, film, online art tools, online classes, basically its what multimodal is in the digital online world! 

Is digital composition important?

Well, yes! 

Since digital composition is so many things, of course its important! It covers every type of mode that learning can be in, so it really is able to be used for everyone! Digital composition can be digital art for the artists, writing music online for music learners, video games for visual and stimulation learners, and so many others! 

However, there is a type of digital composition i enjoy the most, that being the art side of things! 

This is the collage i made earlier, and personally i think this is a wonderful way for teachers to learn about their students and introduce them, gradually, to digital composition. 

I would love to do this with my students and have it be the way they introduce themselves to the class. They can either present their collage, or share it with a small group, but i believe it would be a better way of learning more about my students than just having them fill out a questionnaire asking them there favorite color, subject, and all of that stuff. 

This is more personal, and allows the students to show their creativity! And that's what is important about digital composition, its the creativity it allows the students to share with the world, and thats why its so important!