I have found the beauty if not the knack of digital visual rhetoric. They are called comics. I have been using WittyComics as my only comic generator although I have dabbled a bit with the intriguing drawing hardware, the Boogie Board. I love how you can annotate the pix with comic bubble callouts of various grammars (speech, thought, shout, whisper). You can title it and most importantly for me, you can add meta-narration at the top of the post. In this case I point you to various places that back up the comic narrative. Tons of fun and each one of those destinations is worth the trip.

In keeping with my annotation theme for #digiwrimo I have imported the comic into Thinglink so that you can annotate it further if you wish. Yeah, meta-annotation.

And while you are at it check out this New York Times article on annotation.

Skills and Strategies | Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create

Annotation is not just a classroom exercise, but something we all do all the time. With these ideas we hope to expand students’ notions of what annotation can be and inspire them to experiment with new ways of doing it – in class and out.