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Title                            : Using Digital Comics to Develop Digital Literacy: Fostering Functionally, Critically, and Rhetorically Literate Students

Author                        : Jeff Kirchoff

Year                            : 2017

Publisher                    : Texas Journal of Literacy Education

Source                        : www.eric.com

The usage of sophisticated technology has become a necessity, not even only a prestige anymore. That is why the ability to be digitally literate is a must. In his article, Jeff Kirchoff tried to introduce the opinions of Seber about digital literacy. According to Seber’s view, the students are categorized as digitally literate with three consideratiions as follows: 1.) The students are the consumers of digital literacy, 2.) The students are questioners of digital literacy, 3.) The students are the producers of digital literacy.

To achive the standard of digital literacy based on Seber’s view, Jeff applied the usage of Prezi, Wordpress, and Powerpoint as the platforms to make comics. After understanding and experiencing the three apps to make comic, then the students were asked to compose a short reflection that accompanies their three digital comic creations. This reflection asks them to articulate (a) what their rhetorical goals were with each remix, (b) how they strove to meet those goals, (c) which platform best facilitated their rhetorical goals, and (d) what they learned about digital comics and digital composition through their work.