Final Post

Throughout the semester, I have learned that there are countless ways to express oneself both visually and by using written text. Some of our assignments required us to utilize the traditional method of writing in essay form to analyze a topic and express our views about that topic. Others required us to express our views utilizing different methods, such as the PowerPoint presentation I created about the importance of hybrid vehicles or the screen capture to allow us to visually describe our process of creating a composition. My favorite of these assignments was creating the visual lyrics. It was very interesting because it was up to the student to determine what the lyrics meant and to express that visually. It is not hard to imagine a large number of students choosing the same lyrics with different interpretations and all of the visualizations looking completely different. There is no work I would like to revise that I have done throughout the semester because I put a lot of effort into each assignment. I enjoyed the fact that I was able to express my thoughts creatively in different ways rather than the traditional one of simply writing.
Another aspect of the class I enjoyed was the technological focus. Beginning with the Ted.com speech to the Digital Generation paper to Microserfs, technology was looked at through multiple viewpoints and students were able to express their views as well. It was also very interesting the way technology was used in Microserfs. I also enjoyed the fact that our work was in a blog and we were able to view the rest of the class’ assignments. It was interesting to see how the rest of the class viewed the subjects we covered and their interpretations of the same material. After the class is over, I probably will not add to it. Though I read blogs probably on a day-to-day basis, I do not really see myself as a “blogger”.