Digital Writing Reflection
Angela Fields
4/25/2018
The project I created for my community partner, the SLCC Publication Center, was a collection of texts centered around the incorporation of a publication club that it is my hope will begin in the Fall of 2018. The process of its creation was first to find what the Center needed both through my own observation of the already present text and in talking with the faculty and staff that work daily to keep the center running. After the first project for this class, being a case study of these text and conversations with everyone, I was able to pitch a proposal for the aforementioned club with certainty to the needed text I would need to create and the improvement such an addition would have for my partners. In regard to the network into which these text will enter I did my best to maintain on the more visible text, attributes that can already be found in the existing text in my partners networked document such as images, fonts, logoing and voice. I also added a new trend within the text I created that I hope will help with participation and involvement of the SLCC community in the center-- a Harry Potter theme!
The idea behind this choice was to spark interest in club members to maintain a newsletter that was something Staff member Ken Nelson had thought of doing for a while to help advertise events that the center are part. Other texts that I felt were necessary to help lessen the burden on the faculty and staff of the Center was all things necessary to keep a club up and running as orderly as I was able to surmise in advance. These included: a sign-sheet, a club rush poster, officer duty outline, a timeline of when events had to be complete, a sign-up for available meeting times, ideas that the club could participate in, the forms to get club approval from SLCC clubs and organizations, and document key to make it easy to reference any of the texts just listed with more efficiency. Many of the texts went through multiple revisions in order to both have consideration of the Centers staff and faculties opinions and suggestions, along with a need to work through problems that the platforms I choose to use not quite hitting the mark with my goal with some of the texts. One example of how I bore this in mind was was in the creation of the Club Rush poster, where I had to change the layout and information organization to better help the intended audiences get what they need as fast as the glance they may give it while still being eye catching enough and in line with the new themes that I hope will promote involvement. An instance where a platform did not perform to my liking was when I had to transfer the google slides into a powerpoint in case that was easier to use for club members and just about everything on there either didn’t work such as animations or shifted and covered up various text blocks.
From the experiences I had while creating this Campaign to help a Partner with there text networks I learned a lot of time goes into making unified documents within an organization and often timed there are many more than those that are seen in order to get a process going. How I will use this knowledge is to be more realistic in my abilities to comply to the needs of any future partners with the platforms I am comfortable and fluint and be more honest in my abilities with others platforms I am not or at least request more time in order to create text using them until they fit or at least satisfy. I also think I will take spatial relation of text, organization of elements and words, the track of the human eye and what the brain needs in order to get an informed outline of what it is I am trying to present and the language I need to use to pitch in a way that is compelling to potential partners are all very important takeaways from this project.
The link below is a preview with many of the text that were included in the campaign I completed for the Publication Center excluding any personal information that was used: