Prelude to Watching

I've been thinking about my topic a lot, but in looking through the coursequest instructions, I see that I am first supposed to post about how I came up with my topic. I'm still working on reconstructing that. ;-/

I will probably have to post a couple of times about the watching process, but for now I want to say that as I was going through the assignment, I noticed that we're supposed to cite professional sources. Anyway, while I was wading through some of course material, I stumbled across this site:

http://eduscapes.com/info/webquest1.html#3

in the Visual Literacy section. It's one of Annette's articles,

Digital Glyphs: Imaging Ideas for a Visual World,

and she's talking about ways to develop visual literacy. One of them is the use of digital cameras/scanners/imaging software. I've been thinking about the areas I need to address in making my tattoo inquiry...and also thinking about the final project. I have a bad habit of jumping ahead! I was pleased to read that using PhotoShop or some such program is a literacy-related activity since I'm thinking of incorporating doctored images into my final product. That's one of the fun parts of my inquiry: looking at images, thinking about how they'd look as tattoos. But I'm jumping ahead again. :)