Unit 10 Overview

In this unit, you reflected upon the digital media skills you gained, learned how to analyze images based on the rhetorical situation, and reviewed strategies for enhancing your digital media presentation. These skills will benefit you in personal, professional, and academic situations. You can now impress your family with an Animoto video of your vacation, create a Prezi presentation for a conference, or develop PowerPoint presentations for future classes. Most importantly, though, you have learned how to create digital media presentations that will help you to advocate an argument for change in your community and to collaborate with peers to strengthen that argument. You will see the potential impact an argument for change can have on an audience once you post your advanced presentation with a compelling design to a social networking site. Even if you decide not to share your digital media presentation outside of this course, you now know which parts of your argument are the strongest and are able to identify potential visuals to include in your future digital media presentations.

Paragraph #1, Answer one of the following questions:

• What did you learn about digital media design?
• What changes would you make to your digital media presentation, including visual enhancements, if you wanted to disseminate it to a wider audience via social media sites? Revisit Creating Effective PowerPoints from last week to get some specific ideas about what you could improve.
• Do you think your presentation could generate change, and do you foresee pursuing this argument for change in the future?

Paragraph #2, Answer two of the following questions

• How did what you learned about effective persuasion and logical argument in CM 220 help you in your current job or in other classes you have taken? How might it benefit you in your future career?
• What did you learn about research that you think will be beneficial in the future?
• What improvements did you see in your writing after completing CM 220?
• What advice would you like to share with future students in CM 220 about the class?
• Do you think you will be more likely to advocate for changes in your community because of this course?

YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST PEER RESPONSES UNLESS YOU WANT TO EXPRESS SOME PARTING WORDS