While working on Activity 1, I periodically took a couple of snapshots of my desktop and at the end went through them and picked out the one I liked the best. When I saw this photograph of my screen, I immediately noticed how, if you look at the tabs, it looks packed. The open tabs include the course tools website, the image that I used to answer one of my questions, some information about the possible meanings of this image, and several search engines I used to answer other questions. In addition to all this, there is the word document that I had been working on to answer the questions at the same time. Once composition is viewed in a digital space, the complexity that goes into a simple paragraph or list can be illustrated. In order to come up with a couple of words in the list, or a couple sentences about each search engine, a considerable amount of work and thought had to go into it, which is evidenced by the number of tabs open on my computer screen. However, at the same time, composing is considerably quicker in digital spaces, where rather than searching for each topic in encyclopedias or books, I can find them instantly with just one click of a button. And then, type up my thoughts, just as fast.
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