Wow, what a semester. Looking back, it's almost staggering how much content we've all covered. This blogging experience was absolutely delightful, in terms of a style of digital composition, regularly assessing colleagues' work, having an awards ceremony, and demonstrating how this can be an extremely useful tool of multimodal composition. I feel like a pool of blogs by everyone in the personal learning committee is an exceptional way to promote civic engagement while also encouraging our students to pursue other methods of expressing their thoughts, emotions, or understanding of course content. This is such a convenient way to provide a structure for peer review, keep a log of progress, explore other options of information transferring, and so many other beneficial classroom concepts. I appreciate how the class was not instructed to all use a platform selected by the instructor, but instead exploring the available options and choosing one that we were comfortable with. Liberty and freedom of thought are so much more a priority to me now than they were six months ago. I've done a community log project like this in my Educational Media Theory class years ago, but it was not nearly this productive, beneficial, or functional. I truly regret my lack of promptness in terms of meeting deadlines. My unfortunate display of struggles this semester is not representative of my ability, investment, potential, or philosophy of education. I've been going through it more than I have let on, but this never-ending semester will forever be remembered as a valuable experience and lesson learned. I definitely bit off more than I could chew and counted my chickens before they hatched, and I feel the consequences. But despite all of my complaining, I think this may be the semester I've grown the most in my academic history. My workload was absolutely overwhelming, and many of my assignments were turned in late, but I take pride in the fact that I didn't cut corners and sacrifice quality of work to make up for my lack of time and promptness. This may be the most peer-reviewing I have ever done in a single semester, and I'm so grateful for that because we all know the value and potential of peer review, we just have to ensure the quality of the peer reviews is constructive. I know the voting is over for the Bloscars, but here are my votes:
- Professionalism-Carrie-The many layers of detail and articulation that Carrie demonstrates in her posts is extraordinary. Providing relevant, valuable visuals such as the deconstruction of the writing process. The structure, organization, flow, and quality of these blog posts feels as if she ties a bow on each one before submitting.
Link to Carrie's blog-Educational Thoughts With Carrie – Carrie G-P's educational blog for Currins 547 (wordpress.com) - Multimodal Design-AJ-Her posts were always so refreshing and included a variety of information transferring techniques and ways to absorb ideas, even including a Spotify link on her seventh post.
Link to AJ's blog-Blog | Teaching With Triumph (alexjifas.wixsite.com) - Creativity-Terrence-He writes in a way that as I am reading it makes me feel like he is talking directly to me, we are all aware of the connections that Terrence can make with his writers. It just feels like rich, quality dialogue.
Link to Terrence's blog-Frank Ocean Broke My Heart (terrencereno.blogspot.com) - Civic Engagement-Cody-His blogs were at times controversial in a way that would provoke a beneficial, intellectual conversation. He made frequent references to current events such as the Aaron Rodgers trade. His posts promoted discussion and kept me reading and wanting more.
Link to Cody's blog-(1) Cody's Substack | UWM English Education Blog | Substack
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