Week 8 Progress

I have been pretty happy with my progress in the semester so far. Up until the last couple weeks, anyway. I am still at a B in the class, but it dropped from an A due to an extremely busy schedule. I am still happy with a B, but I definitely want to bring it up by the end of the semester. I've used the extra credit options on some weeks when I have extra time. 

For the next half of the semester, I think I may try to change my schedule so that I get things turned in earlier and have more time to work on extra credit at least until I bring my grade up. I'm also trying to finish early, so I would like to do that if it is still possible. One thing I want to avoid is procrastinating. I've had this problem here lately and it has resulted in missed assignments. 

MLK Jr. Quote

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Week 8 Comments and Feedback

Overall, my feedback from classmates has been very positive. Some give encouragement and reassurance, and others are very helpful for improvements. The most useful comments are the ones who give suggestions, rather than just praising my work. I think my feedback to other students has been helpful and encouraging. Most of the time, I'm able to give ideas for what they could do to improve. Very rarely do I not have some kind of an idea for them. I enjoy reading other stories because it also gives me ideas for the future. I feel like I have gotten to know quite a few people just by reading their introduction posts, and we have a variety of different people with different backgrounds. For the future, I think I need to come up with better suggestions for students. I get into the habit of only having a select few ideas and reusing those, when I should come up with new ideas instead. I also think it's hard to point out the flaws, so I would rather praise the good aspects.

You can learn from criticism

Source: Chzburger

I chose this meme for this blog post because I, like many others, tend to stay away from giving or receiving criticism. It's hard to keep in mind that criticism has a good side and it's essential to improving sometimes. 

Week 8 Reading and Writing

Overall, both the reading and writing for this class have been going well. The biggest problem I have had is having a different schedule every week, which occasionally makes it hard to keep up with each assignment. However, I have enjoyed the way that the class is arranged with the reading, storytelling, and especially the project. I'm excited to see my finished project as well as the others in the class. I'm happy with my topic choice, and I still have quite a few ideas that I'm playing around with. My story could go in a variety of different directions, so my hardest choice will be deciding which one.

The reading notes have helped me tremendously almost every week. They allow me to focus on what I want to do for my weekly story. Sometimes I go in a different direction, but only because I thought about it more between the time I wrote my notes and the time I wrote my story. My favorite writing so far has been my version, which comes from the beginning, of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. I turned the story into a news broadcast, which I thought was interesting and fun to write.

Breaking News 

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I chose this image because it came from my story post from my favorite writing this far. I liked this story most because it reminded me of the type of writing I've had to do in my major class for PR. It's not exactly the same type of writing of course, but I enjoyed it more because it had a small sense of it. 

Something that I need to do more for the future is to look at different storytelling ideas. I didn't start doing that until recently and so far I have liked the ideas.