Blog # 13

Friday October 2, 2009. Today in English Class I would describe my experience as learning something that may work for me, it may not. In college we are constantly learning something new. We are "recommended" to try. We had to use a time line to help fill in the beginning to end information and details included in our chosen video. And everything that entails in the middle to help form our six paragraph long essay. I think the challenge here is bringing a small, short video blog into a six paragraph essay. I can easily bull the whole way through this assignment, but in the end It wouldn't help me with my writing skills. This process is going to aid me in my "COLLEGE LEVEL" courses. I just have to keep repeating this to myself. Every time I want to slack off and be lazy.

Making the time line helped plan my essay because well, it made me like a critic. Picking out all the details. From all of our five senses. Hearing what she is saying, and describing how she is saying it. Listening to the highs and lows of her voice and emotions. Seeing her facial expressions, looking at hand gestures. Noticing the colors around her, seeing where she is at if she is indoors or out. Smell could be involved in some essays. I will have to re-watch my chosen video blog multiple times so see how I could include the sense of smell into my essay. Feelings can be expressed in multiple ways. Her feelings, my feelings how I reacted to the Vlog. How the people involved in the video feel by trying to hide or shy away from the camera. If I was motivated to make my own Vlog, or how I felt about her hobbies or habits. And how I felt about the video blog overall. What would help me more you ask? I wish I had a little bit more confidence in myself. I feel like I am helping everybody else more, before I figure out what's really going on. Once again the pros and cons of group, and how sometimes some people learn by others peoples mistakes. Especially when they are uncomfortably mentioned in class. By learning our own resources, and realizing that Hey! Not only are you doing this for yourself…you have your group members counting on you to get along. Cooperate and do your job as a student. We were assigned groups. And all of us are learning how to deal. Think that adds extra pressure upon us to perform well.
(And believe it or not, after I wrote this I re-read it twice. Guess the forces of habits are sinking in, as far as "Thinking about the audience" ha)