Alexis' Reflection

Follow these steps:

Choose one of the items below. Insert your cursor below the item, and then write about the projects in this class in terms of that item for four minutes.

Choose another of the items, and then write freely about the projects in this class in terms of that item for four minutes.

Choose a third item from the list. Without discussing directly the projects, write freely about the activities and processes experienced in this class in terms of that item for five minutes.

• Creativity
• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
  • Instead of thinking about the projects I'm going to talk a little about the activities and processes that we experienced in class. Many of the activities Professor Anderson had us do make us think critically. For example, he would give us a prompt related to whatever topic we were working on and give us a set amount of time and tell us to just write. We were told to write for the entire time, normally around five minutes, and just try to get everything we wanted to so down. Through activities like this, it involved some critical thinking, having to figure out what I wanted to say and how to stay it all in a short amount of time. It's a very helpful tool in life, and really helpful currently for things like taking timed exams.
• Leadership
• Communication
• Collaboration
  • The one project I think about the most when I think about collaboration is the podcast. This project was the only project that involved a lot of collaboration with the other student in the class. We were put into groups and from there had to figure out topics we all wanted to talk about. We shared the research and worked together to create talking points for the final podcast we did in class. Lucky my group worked very well together, and the collaboration went smoothly. This was the first time I had ever done a group podcast so I learn a few new things about collaboration that specifically tied to the development of a podcast. Like working to create a list of talking points instead of an entire script, and working on creating cues for when the next member should start talking.
• Information 
• Risk-taking
• Adaptability
• Curiosity
• Reflection
• Motivation
  • When it came to motivation most of the projects were engaging enough to keep me pretty motivated without much internal struggle. Though the meme project was the least engaging for me, so there was a lack of motivation to get them all done. Because I was familiar with Photoshop I just wanted to rush through all three of the memes and just call it done. But I really pushed myself to stay motivated and create some interesting memes. I went ahead and create five different memes and then picked the three that I liked the best to submit for class. This project helped teach me the importance of motivation because I was able to come up with three solid memes, rather than three rushed ones.

Finally, choose one item from the list below. Write freely about the projects in this class in terms of that item for five minutes.

• Logic versus emotions
  • When looking at logic versus emotion as aspects of internet argument I think about the twitter report project, it was the very first one we did in class. We look at about a hundred tweets and analyzed them, one of the things we focused on were if the tweets were showing signs of using logic or emotion. The other portion of this is ethos which is like credibility, which was very hard to come by when looking at tweets. Most tweets would include something that gave off signs of being more based on logic by using facts or numbers, or more based on emotion by giving personal experiences. Though this project really showed me that it wasn't all black and white, there were some cases were a tweet would show signs of using both logic and emotion which shows how complicated internet arguments can be.
• Role of visual, sonic, and textual media
• Networks and social exchange