#Reflections

This week is a little different from previous weeks. This one is about reflecting back and analyzing what I have blogged about and how I have grown throughout the semester.

I must say at the beginning of this project I was a little over confident in myself. I thought, considering I had just created a personal blog, that I knew the ins and outs of the blogging world, boy was I wrong. I quickly learned that academic blogging is nothing like personal blogging and even the mere definition of a blog is in question. Throughout our readings and research I have come to understand a lot about communication technology systems, something that I once again thought I had in the bag. My eyes have definitely been opened to vast discussions on communication technology systems and their impact.

As I looked from my first post and remembered how terrifying it was, to be putting my work up against my fellow students who seemed to have completely better writing styles than I did. As the next few weeks approached I saw my confidence begin to bloom a little as I began to really understand the readings and reflect on not just what the authors were saying but how I interpreted those pieces. In my latest writings I see that I have grown even more in my ability to develop effective arguments about what is being said, as well as, formulate that in a way my audience can understand, even though that audience may only be my mom.

I believe each of the weeks have appealed to me in a different way. The meme week ranks in my favorites because I got to spend hours laughing at the hilarity of internet memes. The Social Networking Sites week was also my favorite because it spoke to a system that I have been able to grow up watching develop and launch. Through these articles and posts I see a common theme and that is me questioning society a bit in their lack of knowledge of these subjects and lack of care. Of course I am a Polly Anna thinker and I like to see that the world, at its core, is good, so these questions come as no surprise.

Through this course I have had the ability to broaden my horizons as well as my audiences, thanks mom! I hope that through the next weeks of blogging I can better my writing styles and gain more knowledge through our readings. I am so honored to have the opportunity to be in this course and absorb all of the information given by articles, my professor, and my fellow classmates.