Think it... Write it... Speak it

The end is near, and the awards are upon us. I'm excited to see who the winner of the "People's Choice Award" shall be, because there are several classmates who've created some truly great blogs! I loved reading "Lester's Lessons", Olivia's blog was always enjoyable because her thoughts flow seamlessly across the page, and every time Casey wrote about poetry it made me want to love poetry (Even though I still don't, yet.). The blogs in this class were creative and a pleasure to read. award images - Bing images If I’m being honest, and I will be, blogging this semester was a challenge. I struggled to find my voice in composing a professional blog; should this sound like an academic paper, a conversation, some mix of the two? Even though I knew it should sound like some mix of the two I wasn’t entirely sure of how to accomplish that and some of my blogs sound really awkward and I occasionally rambled. However, as challenging as it was, it was a...

Dry-Interactive Timeline I knew very quickly once I began reading Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman that I wanted to create an interactive timeline for this book. The events in the book take place over a very short period of time and there are some major events. I also knew that I wanted civic engagement to be a component of my timeline since Dry is a cli-fi novel. Rather than incorporate images and videos that might have told the story of the book, I chose to use videos, images, and websites that would educate people on climate change while also highlighting the importance of water and how the world could potentially run dry one day. I used the dates from the novel with a short synopsis of what was occurring on that day and then included different media on climate change and water. I really enjoyed the process of creating a multimodal response, maybe a little more than I thought I would.  multimodal composition - Bing When I started to think about the types of media I wanted to ...