I found my groove this week through enthusiasm for this course and maximizing on my productivity. My positivity stemmed from the guidance of the weekly screencast. I gleaned how to create better critiques, format my blog posts for a wider audience, and dive deeper into my viewpoint and experience. In my story critique, I sought out stories that interested me more, while supporting my focal theme. Both stories, My Mushroom Burial Suit and The Power of Vulnerability, embellish upon my focal theme of grief.
I began to format my critiques in a more user-friendly way: expecting the outside world to engage with my viewpoint. Coeio, the makers of the Mushroom Burial Suits favorited my critique. Having been anti-Twitter prior to this course, I am surprised by my delight. Perhaps I have found Twitter’s niche in my world.
It feels like this week really began to click for me. I truly appreciate the design of this course and love its immersion component. I responded to one of my peer’s New Literacies responses saying that I hope to design such a well-thought-out course one day.
I feel like I am studying with the great educators of my time.
Here is my week’s work:
| TDC 1 | From Where I Stand |
| Story Critique 1 | My Mushroom Death Suit |
| Story Critique 2 | Power of Vulnerability |
| Weekly Assignment | The Grief Wheel |
| L&K Response | Chapter 3: Leverage in Web 2.0 Business Models |
| Peer Story Critique 1 | 23 Feelings in Dance |
| Peer Story Critique 2 | My Kid Would Never Bully…Or Would They? |
| L&K Peer Responses 1 | New Ethos & Social Learning |
| L&K Peer Responses 2 | Out with the Old, In with the “Old New”?? |
| TDC 2 | GNA Birthday Wish |
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