readings - I enjoyed all of the readings that we read about and discussed in class. However, some of the readings were quite long and confusing. A reading that was very confusing to me was the Produsage. Even after discussing it in class, I still felt left hanging. Although, for all of the other readings, I felt totally re-informed when we discussed it in class. Talking about it with other classmates and with your help was very useful.
assignments
-presentation - I was completely satisfied with all of the presentations and mine as well. The hyper and deep attention was a great topic for me to work on due to my major and I felt very comfortable presenting it.
-wikipedia - I actually really enjoyed working with Wikipedia. I was a little hesitant at first because I had never used it before and I wasn't sure what the outcome would be, but after working with it, I began to get the hang of it. I was very happy that my contributions to my site stayed up, which was on Assistive Technology.
-blogs - This was my second experience working with blogs, but I enjoyed working with them in this class so much better than a previous class I had. The blogs really helped me think about what I was learning and it helped me express me feelings about many topics. Using the blogs helped me to enhance my writing digitally and stay connected to the class and other students.
-reflective essay - At first I was completely clueless to what I was going to write about and I felt that the essay came up out of nowhere. However, once we discussed it in class and you had us brainstorm for ideas, I immediately thought of a topic. I was a little overwhelmed at first with the reflective essay on top of the hypertext essay, but the outcome was great. It definitely helped have a better understanding about the readings.
-hypertext essay - I really liked doing the hypertext essay. I was excited to be able to work with a topic of my choice, which was relevant to my major. I really enjoyed designing the site and adding pictures, colors, and etc. I had a little trouble with adding a lot of text because I wasn't sure what to write exactly.
activities
-electronic literature site - This was a lot of fun to work with. I really liked the little red riding hood game. It was a little weird at first, but it was a new way of working with literature and reading a story. The ending of the story was quite interesting and unexpected.
-looked on Internet to look for flashmobs - I loved looking for flashmobs during class. My classmates and I found really interesting flashmobs and I never knew about them until entering this class.
write:
what you like best/least
I liked searching for flashmobs, electronic literature, hypertext essay, and the Friend Game article the best.
excited/not excited but really learned - best
didn't get anything out of it/boring - least
I was really excited to read about the Friend Game article. It really informed me and I was shocked to read such a story like that. I definitely learned a lot about social networking sites and how important it is to stay safe. I wasn't so excited about working with electronic literature and creating a hypertext essay, but I learned a lot in the end. Once I began looking around at some electronic literature, I was deeply engaged. Some of the games on the website are so fascinating and entertaining. At first when I found out we were going to create a hypertext essay, I was a little confused about what exactly a hypertext essay was. I didn't know if it was the same thing as the website or not. However, once I began creating the website, it definitely flowed right away. I was so excited to create my design for my website and write information that could be useful for me to find a job and help me more with my Major. The outcome was great.
I really wasn't excited about doing the reflective essay. When I discovered we also had to do a reflective essay, I felt overwhelmed. I was nervous that I wasn't going to finish on time because I also had to continue working on the hypertext essay. However, once I began writing it, my ideas came out and I actually did learn from it.
related question:
what you'd like to do more of / what you'd like to do less of
I would have like to do more on working with websites. I felt that the process went by really fast and it was hard for some people to organize their site because we were all mostly first time users. I think having an extra class on designing a website might have been useful. I would have like to do less of Wikipedia. I did enjoy working with it and my outcome, but I think maybe only 2 or 3 classes could have been about Wikipedia and that's all. I would have also liked to have the Wikipedia classes back to back. I also would have liked to maybe have one day dedicated to showing anything on the Internet to the class that we thought was very interesting in regards to writing. Maybe something like a free class or free work.
something you wanted to learn that we left out?
copyright/code
timeline in beginning of class
I honestly don't feel that you left anything out. I enjoyed your teaching style and I think it was very useful. I think it might have been interesting to learn about codes in just one class, but I feel like the theory aspect of it was more useful. I gained everything that I wanted to gain out of this class and I learned so much.
do you feel prepared to do whatever you need to do with "writing" for?
I really do feel prepared to do whatever I need to do with "writing," which in my case would be teaching. There were several assignments we engaged in that I was able to enhance my skills with writing using technology for teaching. For example, working with Wikipedia I was able to contribute to a site about Assistive Technology. Also, doing a presentation on Hyper and Deep Attention I was able to gain in site on how writing using technology is being enforced in the classrooms. Finally, the hypertext essay helped me in so many ways. I was able to gain more information about Computer games and Autism and not only can I use the site for future references, and job opportunities, I am now able to create another website about any information I find useful and appropriate for my major.
No comments:
Post a Comment