Final Reflective Paper

Due Date: 11:00 a.m on June 21st

Medium: Your final paper will be posted as an introduction to your distributed portfolio.

Description: Your final project for this class is a distributed portfolio of the work you've done this semester and a short paper (3-5 pages) analyzing that work. The Final Reflective Paper will act as an introduction to your portfolio and as an analytical discussion of the work you've done this semester. It should be well-written, insightful, and polished. Your Final Reflective Paper should address a larger (web) audience for your work. In other words, unlike the analytical cover letters you've submitted for your other major projects in this class, this final reflective paper will not be a letter to Lori so much as a general discussion of your work for anyone who finds your portfolio. Your final reflective paper should address questions below in order to give visitors to your site an idea for what they will find there and how they should interpret your work.

Questions:

• Which works are you proudest of in this portfolio and what do those works say about you as a composer of digital stories?
• Which works would you like to expand, revise, or redo in a different digital medium?
• What tips can you offer people who are interested in composing their own digital stories?
• How has feedback on your drafts helped to shape them?
• What's your philosophy when it comes to composing digital stories? What are you trying to do with these stories?
• What do you hope visitors to your site walk away with after viewing your work?
• What do you hope visitors to your site understand about you as a composer?
• Where do you go next with this kind of work? Will you compose other digital stories? Will you use your skills as a digital composer in other ways?