Later that day

I think I want to start with a little background info. Both my BA and MA are in literature and there are a lot of new concepts, etc. for me to learn while focusing my PhD work on Comp / Rhet. During my last semester at Pittsburg State I needed to take a final seminar class and by cosmic circumstances I took a class on computers and composition. The class mainly dealt with the influence of computers in the field of composition, but it was in this class that I first read some of Cythinia Selfe's work, whose name is ubiquitous in the New Media field. I really enjoy her work and the first chapter of our text sets up a good theoretical base for the exploration of new media. Here is one of my favorite quotes: "The more channels students ( and writers generally) have to select from when composing and exchanging meaning, the more resources they have at their disposal for being successful communicators" (Selfe 3). In other words, ignoring the importance of "more channels" is essentially depriving students / writers of all the tools they need to complete a task. This leads me into the ideas that are expressed in the Daley article. I think that she makes a great argument for the use of multi-media projects in the class room. Daley says that "the tools of keying, compositing, and morphing are more than ways of misrepresenting the truth. They enable the construction of higher orders of meaning, nuance, and inference" (Daley 36). I am attempting to post a video that I think is funny, but also illustrates this point, enjoy.