Commenting Review Week

I feel like I am definitely making connections with other students. I have taken online classes before and we would do weekly posts and comment on other students things but the connection wasn’t there. I think the difference comes from the introduction posts! Instead of posting on one persons at the beginning we are meeting someone new each week…then may see their posts again for the commenting assignments.

Any of the comments that have been encouraging and those that catch mistakes has been truly helpful. My major definitely revolves around commenting on other students work. We are always having critiques and asking each other for opinions on a design. Learning to handle the fact that this thing you worked on for hours just isn’t working for other people is crucial. All because Design is Communication.

(Saw this on Buzzfeed)

I thought this image was fitting for the weather we have had the last few days!! 

Writing Review Week

I feel like one of my greatest successes has been learning to tell a story with little to no dialog. Although this has been the case for a lot of my stories I think its time I start trying to add dialog to my stories.  Another goal I have is to work on my proof reading. I catch myself proof reading in the beginning, then I end up just reading the story. Any feedback that catches errors or punctuation issues are great!  Those things are totally my biggest challenge as a writer. I would have to say Hanuman the Cat is my favorite storytelling post to date. 

(Screenshot: Hanuman the cat)

Reading Review Week

I have enjoyed all the reading so far. I loved getting a different glimpse of the same stories. I wish more books came like that. I mean if the Percy Jackson series had expansions from the views of other characters, I would totally read them!! In the case of my storytelling post, I did revisit my reading diaries a number of times.  Its interesting to revisit the posts from the beginning of the semester in the sense that it feels like forever ago! Those older posts do help me recall the events from that section of reading.

I used to read a lot for pleasure. In fact, I have about four unread books on my kindle right now. Its hard to balance school work, a social life, and forcing myself to stay off facebook to get back in it. The days I do read for pleasure,  I end up staying up half the night because I can’t put the book down. Which is no good, when you have class the next morning.

(Screen Shot: Sita and Hanuman)

I chose this image because, I really enjoyed getting to see the interaction between Sita and Hanuman.