Mini Project #1

America’s low-lying educational fruit
T is for Aca-Fan
Transmedia is for Veronica Mars
A Conversation about make ‘em laugh
Round table part one, UNIFY
Authentic IN ALL CAPS
Transmedia, with Tyler Weaver
Interview with producers about comics
Culture of reading, in Hollywood
Let us now praise famous monsters
Transmedia
Internet freedom between T Bone
Global south and spreadable media
Transmedia

My Found Poem comes from many of the individual post titles from Henry Jenkins' blog Confessions of an Aca-Fan, the Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins".  Jenkins' blog focuses solely on the media and how it is perceived by the audience, and also how it is potrayed.





Gamer in reality
Good versus evil
Star Wars, Ruzzle
Snowboard
Good heroes vs. evil villains
BEER based learning
Wordle, a path to inquiry
Parents roll kids
Good versus evil
Unrealistic at who they look up to
Krispy Kreme on Myrtle Beach
Jeopardy expressions and emotions
Themes versus media
Good versus evil















































My second Found Poem comes from the individual blog posts on blogs of members of both the 9:30am class and our 11:00am class.  Our blogs come in a wide-variety and focus on many topics, almost all relevant to class time the week of.

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When starting my mini project I wanted to focus on how our English class' blogs focus on many, many topics, while more professional blogs pick one topic and expand each post from there.  When reading Henry Jenkins' blog and a few other blogs I noticed that I was right.  Professional blogs pick one topic and each week/day/hour/month create a post that stems from their central idea, Jenkins' idea being "the media".  However, as I was going through all the different blogs from our two class periods, I noticed that I was wrong about our "unstableness".  Even though our blogs have many different titles, with many different meanings they all fall back on this same idea of connected learning.  Our blogs all deal with peer based learning, string games, "why I missed class", and many other topics.  While talking in a workshop group I heard something really interesting.  A fellow peer of mine said that peer based learning and the media have a strong correlation with each other.  After realizing what he said I saw an immediate connection between Jenkins' blogs and our class' compilation of blogs.  If you compare the 2 and their topics of "the media" and "connected learning" you realize they overlap.  This is important to me because it puts our class into a much bigger and better perspective for me.  Being able to see connections between media and learning ties into so much more.  For example, these 2 topics tie into college readiness, success, and even string games!  This is really important to everyone, especially college students because when you think about it, the things we're learning are directly influenced by the media!  So just think, how much of what we see in the media is good?!  Probably less than 40%!  I'm finding this really interesting and I will be looking more into it!  If we have a separation of church and state we also need a separation of LEARNING and MEDIA! Hahaha, I'm done!

March 20, 2013

The meetings with the Forrest View students were very interesting.  I learned so much about how ALL students think.  In our short time talking I learned that we all view college very similarly, whether we're in it or soon to be.  When talking about college readiness I also discovered that we all have the same pressures, insecurities, fears, and excitements.  When discussing college readiness one major topic kept coming up, and this was peer pressure.  Many of us feel like we are pressured into going to college.  Stephanie (a Forrest View student) said that she felt like if you didn't get accepted to college coming out of high school then "your life is pretty much over."  I thought this was funny and interesting that people actually take college acceptance that serious.  She felt that if she didn't get in to college then her life was pretty much "over."  I think that is a very harsh thing to say, especially over "college acceptance."  However, Victoria on the other hand had a completely different outlook.  Even though she knew she wanted to go to college she had come to the realization that "college isn't for everyone."  I completely understand where she's coming from because I feel the same way.  Combined, all groups came up with very similar posters of college influences (shown above).  This was also pretty cool to see how everyone's influence on college readiness came from everything else but themselves.  It would have been pretty neat to see someone's influence be themselves.  What do y'all think?

Found Poems!

Fire!
Do not pop popcorn
Precaucion, caliente!
You are cordially invited
to keep calm, you come alive.
Run for your life, go do it.
The gold award, as we party
to our own rendition.
Trained responders only!

This was my "Found Poem" I wrote in class last monday!  I think it is interesting how about every three lines in my poem make sense, then it seems as though they completely switch topics.  I think it was also pretty funny to see how we all pretty much brought back the same little blurbs from writings around the building.  That shows how all the same posters around campus catch our attention!