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Week 5 Reflective Summary

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This week was probably my favorite week so far at ILT5430 class. I’ve enjoyed reading Henry Jenkins’s . This week was our final week. We completed our final project and other projects. Everything went smoothly thankfully. The only difficulty I had was trying to think of what I should do for my Tutorial. I feel that I have done well on my assignments this week. I’ve worked on my assignments all week and had good time-management. I wouldn’t do anything differently this week and I don’t have any questions. Have a great rest of the summer! I’ll miss the fun assignments from this course.
How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments (inclusive of at least two TDCs, your DS106 Activity Bank Assignment, response to course readings (grad students only), critique of digital story, various responses to CU Denver peers, and engagement with other online social networks)?
I think I did well having completed all the required work this week. I started the week by creating a movie poster mashup. I thought the concept was good but the final product could have looked a bit more polished. I am still getting a handle on using Photoshop type software and spent quite a bit of time creating the poster despite it looking a little amateur. I created two Daily Creates throughout the week. I had planned to do more Daily Creates for fun but ran out of time. In my reading this week I focused on the aspects that need change in education and schools. We read Jenkins chapter on Communities of Readers, Clusters of practice, where I chose to focus on the change needed for technology to become completely integrated into schools along with participatory culture. I read most of the recommended reading but chose to write about the Letters to the President project, where students are able to annotate material in the upcoming election. For my personal scholarship, I read about the repercussions of overscheduling children and the influence it has on work-life balance at a young age. On the heels of this reading, I critiqued a digital story involving a video for teens on work-school-life balance and the things young people can do to take care of themselves. This week I also critiqued two peer reading responses and two peer story critiques. Since my group is small I am still critiquing the same people and I am finding it interesting the materials and resources these peers are finding on specific topics. And for the second week, I feel my conversations through online annotating are getting even better.
1.What gave you trouble? What did you enjoy most? What did you learn?
I have enjoyed reading Henry Jenkins’s Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices. I felt after all the theoretical reading of the past a few weeks, Jenkins’s chapter really pulled everything together and showed me many practical ways of applying DIY participatory culture in classroom setting.
I also had fun at the flash mob on this Tuesday. The reading introduced five ways using Hypothesis in classroom, which was very helpful as I am planning to implementing it in my class this fall. The alive annotation gave me strong sense of community for our ILT5430 class. Many people raised some questions and concerned that I have towards public annotation and reading the feedback and comments right away was also valuable. I definitely hope to have another flash mob soon.
2. What would you do differently? What questions do you have?
I would not do anything different. Right now I do not have any questions.
3. What are some of the larger issues surrounding your work, particularly as they relate to exploring your focal theme?
My focal theme, garden and plants, is kinda not easy to find appropriate DS106 design assignment to partner with. When I went over the assignment list, sometime I felt strong connection with a certain task but it is not related with my focal theme. Nevertheless, I was able to find something relevant and tackle it down.
4.Provide a self-assessment of your work quality and effort on a “exceeding expectations,” “meeting expectations,” and “below expectations” scale. Why are you “exceeding” or “meeting” or “below” course expectations?
I think I am meeting expectations right now. I am participating all the required agendas, completing all of the work on time, and processing all that I am learning. I am doing work that is meaningful to me and hopefully others.

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