Final Reflection

One of the biggest moments of wobble that I have experienced this semester is my first blog post, but first a little bit of explanation of wobble. Wobble in the manner that I will be using is a moment of weakness or a moment that was difficult. My first blog post scared the living day lights out of me for no reason other than the fact that I was scared of the world seeing what I was saying. Actually I take that back I was not scared of what the world sees, I care more about what people from high school was say if they saw what I posting. I honestly don't know what I feared this because it is foolish. I should not be scared of expressing my ideas and what is going on through my head, should I? Why should I be scared of others, when they don't even remember what I say or do they? Who is has the right to put me down for expressing me? Why should I conform to social norms? Why can't I create my own style? Can I create my own style? What happens when I do break the norm? Would there be consequences for it? What would it take to break the norm? Would the people I was worried about even care if they did see it? Would they even remember my words on this page? Or ever remember this blog at all?

Literacy Narrative Reflective Blog

Documentation of Revision:

• 1st Draft
• 2nd Draft
• 3rd Draft/Final Draft
• Attempt at something that turned into nothing:(sorry for the size had to make it big enough to see) 
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It was hard at first for me to figure out what to write about because I had this image stuck in my head of a story that had to directly relate with writing and our lives. Needless to say I do not have many concrete interesting stories about writing that could even take up a paragraph. Once I figured out that it just had to literacy in general terms. I then thought of the trip I took to Australia summer before Sophomore year in High School. I knew it would make it easier for me because so much had happen on this trip that I could talk about. It was different and it was risky. I revised my first draft into a stream of consciousness story that was was quick and fast moving. I ended up in telling more of the story in the second draft also. I am not saying that my second draft was perfect because by all means it was no where near that. After that one day in class we watched a whiteboard video that was really cool, so I thought it would be cool to do something like that. I knew that there was no way for me to do the whiteboard so I just drew out all my pictures and was planning on making a video. After I made the video I would go back over it with a voice over and tell the story in a stream of consciousness way. I ended up in drawing it out, but I never ended up in making the video. Instead I went through my second draft and read it out loud, and the parts I did not like how they sounded I would change to whatever suited my mood at that time. It was good although probably my grammar in the paper was not the best, and also it was defiantly not 100% stream of consciousness. There were a few sentences  where it did not fit into the overall style. That is okay though because I needed to have those parts in there and without the story would just not make sense. Editing my work is not as much fun as revising though because editing is more of the boring stuff while revising is changing up the way you are telling the story or some other way that is cool interesting. This assignment was really cool. I liked how the story could pretty much be about whatever we wanted, and we as students were not constricted to a certain style or anything it was all us. We could do it however we wanted and whatever we wanted it to be about. 

Ethnography Reflective Post

It was not that difficult to figure out what to write and what to put in the photo montage. I sat down and just thought about how and why people write what they write on the whiteboards. I think it was easy for me because I always find myself thinking about why others do what they do. When I was writing out what to say I originally wrote what I was going to say, and then I went back through and read it. When I was reading it I would edit certain sections that did not sound just right. One thing I think our group struggled with was communicating with each other, but when it came down to it we got it done and I think we did a pretty good job. Next time I would exchange numbers because that is a more direct way to get in contact with someone rather than email or other methods. It was not hard to create a non essay because in previous blog posts I have experimented with presenting ideas in different forms. Which is good because when I first tried doing videos it was hard, and took a long time. When I was working on the ethnography project though it came together pretty quickly and was not hard at all. I think this was good project because it forced us to experiment with expressing ideas in a different way, and also it forced us to collaborate with others.

Here are links to our project:
My Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4C_G8e2K0s
Our Prezi: http://prezi.com/25tfhjv-yfg7/ethnography-project-public-writing/?kw=view-25tfhjv-yfg7&rc=ref-10587848
My editing notebook: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1lN72Wx9W97SWxHRHdjaWw5SkE/edit