Reflective Blog Post #6.5 - The Presentation/Goodbyes

Last post for this class. Sad day.

Here's my presentation. Sorry about the lateness and the sort of washed-out lookin' slideshow. This was my last chance to film in that classroom, though, so I doubt I'll be recreating it again.

The Beatles make an appearance, so be sure to check that out.

It was fun making this presentation, since it's about something I love and I like to entertain people. My heart was seriously pounding right before I went up to present, but it all worked out for the best.

Nearly all comments were positive, but since I'm an insecure jerk, I have to dwell on the two criticisms, even though they were both paired with compliments.

"could use more... structure?"

I have to admit, the last third of the presentation sort of lacks structure since I didn't know quite how to fill space, but it's never terribly irrelevant. I agree with this critique.

"try to memorize the slides"

I did. That's what I put all my time into, man. I knew each slide front and back, beginning to end, I just didn't know what subject matter could fill that last couple of slides before the closing.

Well, that's all for this semester. Happy Holidays everyone, and have a fun Winter Break!

Reflective Blog Post #6 - EVERYTHING (in the past three weeks)

WOO, buddy, here we go. Wrappin' up the course. Let's go over the past few weeks together.

In my last post, I talked about the editorial boards and their calls for papers and how I responded to them. Now, the boards have put forth all of their publications and everything's nice and done. My board's publication process was very simple: Three of us met - Christian couldn't make it - and I made the publication. As it turns out, there's not much need for three people when you're working with Weebly.com. I don't want to imply that the other board members were slackers, there's just no way for three guys huddled around the computer to work together on the website - for the sake of efficiency and consistency, only one person could work on it. And it was easy - just a cut-and-paste process (the pictures were a bit of a pain, had to use screenshots) followed by making everything uniform in font, typeface, and format. If only all of the names could have fit in the top bar, I'd call it a success.

I was pleased with the responses. The images were a delight to take in, and I was impressed more than once. The dissections of the nature of creativity, especially David Pann's bit of writing, were also great fun to read through.

What else is there, what else is there... right, I've talked about the publication, and... I've got no documentation to add. Nothing was really written down in regards to the actual publication. We just got together one night and did it. That's all. Okay, I guess I'm done there.

The learning process, though. Man, let's get into that. What have I learned so far? I've learned that... a lot of people... like to read about science... more than me. And that makes me feel bad. Alright, so we've got the guilt going on, that's good, that's good. I think it's fair to say that this whole English course has made me think more about how I come up with stuff. I'm not making this up or fudging the truth, a great portion of this class, from my first make (my writing process in Minecraft narrative form) to my board's publication, has been all about who we are as creators. And I've talked quite a bit about just that, and I've thought quite a bit about just that. Don't know if we're at the "breakthrough" stage just yet, but I know more now.