Assignment 1 – Deeper Dive Inquiry Overview + Aims

My Deeper Dive Inquiry Project can be summarized as the engagement and development of creative skills. 

I have decided to merge my previous 10-day creative challenge idea into three main themes that fit together: written work, visual storytelling, and craft-based experiments. This way, I am able to produce more elaborate end products that will hopefully reflect my goal of intentionally engaging with my interests. 

This blog will serve as a creative hub where I can explore what it means to merge my online presence and the tools that are important to me in the physical world; How will having this blog enable me to be more thoughtful in my day-to-day life? I aim to explore how digital tools can shape my creative and academic work. 

Through this project, I aim to 

• Learn how to cite and give credit where necessary. 
• Learn new skills such as video editing, how to upload a video/podcast onto the blog, how to create an aesthetically pleasing blog, uploading multimedia
• Developing a relationship with the digital world that can enable me to engage with my interests/hobbies creatively 
• Having a central place such as my blog to compile resources that are thought-provoking

I will be documenting this process and sharing it on my blog. This is a nerve-wracking yet exciting assignment for me because I tend to keep my creative projects private. It is so much more important for me to create something, almost like a new language that has not been heard before. This drive to be innovative often leaves me with writer’s blocks that sometimes last for months, this is exactly why I wanted to push myself for this course. 

Here are the categories and what post corresponds 

1. Written work
   1. Focusing on a specific scene from a film I have seen recently: reflect on the stylist elements and upload the scene to the blog (academically) 
   2. Write a poem and figure out a way to incorporate terms that I have learned about in this course (open licensing, fair dealing, curation, digital identity, digital presence, digital citizenship, etc) 
2. Visual storytelling
   1. New software skill → video editing: I plan to make a video merging a plethora of clips I have recorded to all come together to fit into the theme of Fragments of Time (incorporate video poetry, involving editing, sound, visuals, text over images possible) 
3. Craft based experiment
   1. Crafting challenge → pick a term from our digital literacy course, and then cut out images from magazines/newspapers, and glue them together to represent a concept/term (for example open licensing, fair dealing, curation, digital identity, digital presence, digital citizenship etc)

This is going to be an experience! I am excited to share more on my blog!