Showing and telling

Our project is one of those projects that would just be better if shown rather than told. It is important to show in this project how the digital media is there to help us better understand different aspects of our lives. Online dating is a controversial subject and in order to portray it in the most successful way, we must show it digitally.

In class, we talked about what we read in "Literacy in the New Media Age." After we defined some of the words, it was easier for me to understand the text and how we should use it while working on the project. We talked about how in our group the reading path was important because we want the audience to get the most from our project that they possible can, therefore, the reading path needs to be set up correctly. Multi-modality is going to be an important part of our project because we are going to be using several different modes to help the audience understand our project.

Showing is going to be the most effective way of getting our project point across. It is easier to show a video about this topic rather than tell what we have found. It is more interesting this way too!