Class "Reflection"

I thought that today it was nice to step away from the computer for once. I felt like it was a good way to get everyone’s attention and really talk about our project and where it was heading. I thought that the group worked well to create some good visuals. I also liked stepping away from the technology that we are always surrounded with because sometimes I get confused in class and working with paper every once in a while just helps clear your head. By looking at other groups projects I thought it was really cool the things they came up with. I would have never thought of making a flip book or a comic strip and I think that a lot of good creativity came up today in class.

At first I thought that my group was going to do a power point but once we got started today with our pictures we ended up really liking the direction we were heading and changed our visual aspect of the project to a children’s story. We sorted out our ideas and figured out stronger ways to convey our messages. I think that something we should add to our children’s story is a moral of some type because I think that most children’s stories have one and it makes them more memorable to the reader when they contain one.

Something I didn’t really get much out of today was the ‘card scramble.’ The group that I was with was doing their project about someone’s spiritual journey and I really felt that my project did not at all relate. However, through the process of mixing with other people in the class I was able to see the direction other groups were heading which helped me to see if we were on the right track.

So far my group is doing a good job of putting out ideas and working together and I hope that it stays like this. It will make the project less stressful and we can all be proud at the end. I felt like today I was able to let out the (small) creative side that I have and figure things out. It was also a good way to mingle with the other group members and get more comfortable because before we were all still kind of used to our groups from project one. It will be very helpful once we begin project two to be comfortable with each other.

Overall I would say that I learned a lot in class today. I think that although technology is great and necessary, sometimes it can be extremely useful to just put down everything and work with less tech savvy things. It’s not very often anymore that a teacher hands you paper and says “draw what comes to mind” and I think sometimes that is exactly what you need. Before class today I really had no idea what we were doing and now I have a clear picture of what I would like the final product of this project to look like.