Dtc/356 Goal 1

Goal #5: The ability to properly structure and manage information for the use of all potential audiences. Being able to understand the search, structure, and use an information database allows for more precise communication between developer and user. This communication becomes even more crucial when working within a production pipeline with other professionals. Keeping cohesion between databases and file structure is vitally important when working within a team, which is exactly why the CMDC builds such a strong network between its students. We are not only taught to work fluently amongst each other, but are prepared to do so in any professional career outside of college as well. Consistent organization within our work builds the technological world for those who will come after us, and leaving our work in a state that can be accessed and altered for the future. DTC 356, Electronic Research and the Rhetoric of Information, is extremely helpful for providing students with a proper understanding of data bases and information retrieval. This class focused on creating students who understood not only how to properly format and upload their own work into the internet, but the best techniques used to find anything and everything online. This is an extremely underrated
I have always been careful about what I post online, and am aware of the magnitude of people it can reach. Having this understanding of digital diversity helps build a better virtual world for everyone involved, and keeps political correctness in day to day use of digital technology. While in a professional career, employers can also rest assured when hiring a CMDC graduate that they are gaining an employee who is already well aware of the diversity of the online world and how to respectfully and appropriately create content for all