Last month, we had the opportunity to present our technoliteracy projects in class. I was excited to show the class what I had been working on for so long. The whole project started with a simple idea, and I somehow pulled it off.
The ability to start with an idea and have the opportunity to develop it, I feel, is the biggest blessing in college. Of course, the creation of the idea is prompted by some assignment or class requirement. However, if all else fails, college does just that. It forces students to think, to create, to come up with ideas, and to determine how to make ideas become reality.
In this class, Multimedia Writing, I was given the assignment of making a technoliteracy memoir. For this assignment, I was to reflect on my life and see what different technologies have influenced my literacy. I thought about the medium I wanted to use to present the project. At that point, we had just started learning about Wikis and Blogs. I have, and always have had, a desire to go above and beyond. Maybe it is my competitive nature, maybe it is my self-criticism in everything I do. I am not sure. The point is, I did not want to just stick to basic options for presentation.
I thought back to earlier in the semester when we saw a YouTube video using screencasting. This was the birth of my idea. I was going to figure out how to use a software I had never even heard of before seeing that video, and I was going to figure out how to include all different media in my project. Had I never signed up for this class, I could have never been prompted to learn this software and work toward making a screencast video. I would have never had the opportunity to see my idea become reality.
After about a month of near daily work on the project, I created a screencast video including Microsoft Word, Wikispaces, Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, Photoshop Elements, Blogger, and YouTube. I worked hard to learn all of the different workings within the program.
I am grateful for college, and for the opportunity to be a creator, to take an idea and see it become realilty.
The ability to start with an idea and have the opportunity to develop it, I feel, is the biggest blessing in college. Of course, the creation of the idea is prompted by some assignment or class requirement. However, if all else fails, college does just that. It forces students to think, to create, to come up with ideas, and to determine how to make ideas become reality.
In this class, Multimedia Writing, I was given the assignment of making a technoliteracy memoir. For this assignment, I was to reflect on my life and see what different technologies have influenced my literacy. I thought about the medium I wanted to use to present the project. At that point, we had just started learning about Wikis and Blogs. I have, and always have had, a desire to go above and beyond. Maybe it is my competitive nature, maybe it is my self-criticism in everything I do. I am not sure. The point is, I did not want to just stick to basic options for presentation.
I thought back to earlier in the semester when we saw a YouTube video using screencasting. This was the birth of my idea. I was going to figure out how to use a software I had never even heard of before seeing that video, and I was going to figure out how to include all different media in my project. Had I never signed up for this class, I could have never been prompted to learn this software and work toward making a screencast video. I would have never had the opportunity to see my idea become reality.
After about a month of near daily work on the project, I created a screencast video including Microsoft Word, Wikispaces, Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, Photoshop Elements, Blogger, and YouTube. I worked hard to learn all of the different workings within the program.
I am grateful for college, and for the opportunity to be a creator, to take an idea and see it become realilty.
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