After completing this course, you will:

1. Deepen awareness of yourself as a literate individual and reflect on your personal and social identity as an author in the home, workplace, for citizenship and daily life;
2. Gain knowledge of how changes in society and technology are shaping approaches to writing, media production, multimodal media composition and media literacy in the context of K-12 and higher education, and in informal learning environments, including home, library and community;
3. Develop digital media production practices for learning using free and low-cost platforms and tools for purposes of self-expression, communication and advocacy;
4. Consider how authorship embodies ideologies about the relative value of creativity, identity, collaboration, authority, representation, power and social action;
5. Strengthen research, reading comprehension, critical reading and synthesis skills in learning from texts in a variety of genres and forms;
6. Deepen collaborative, organizational, problem-solving and leadership skills in working with others as a member of a creative production team;
7. Gain a broader appreciation of the role of both scholarship and praxis as a member of an interdisciplinary knowledge community in digital literacy.