This class and format is a trip!! Even though I am very
active on Twitter @thegroveness and on Facebook, connecting this to a curriculum
has been a tremendous learning curve for me. As a person who works within a structured
format, the fluidity of this course has been something else. At the beginning,
it was hard me for to imagine that my social media activity can be translated
into a seedbed for learning in the college setting. In reality, the social media
landscape is the new communicative space. It’s has changed the way we frame our
communication skills, relationship skills, and our cognitive abilities. I originally
viewed my social media as an outlet and completely separate from my academic life.
This independent study has taught me that social media and academics can be in
concert with one another. Instead of textbooks, lectures, syllabi, and research
papers, we blog, tweet, and facebook each other and this is the work of the
course. The theoretical approach of creative communication is what I expected
to be involved in. In this course, I jumped right into the praxis of the
creative communication. This kind of hands on learning has been beneficial for me
because it removed me form a place of academic familiarity. Even though I’m struggling, I think I get it
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
Let's Do It
I once heard a story about a cruise ship that was traveling in
the midst of a storm. In this extremely chaotic scene, a young girl was pushed
overboard. All sudden an 80 year old man jumped into the sea and rescued the
young girl. When they reached shore safely, a banquette was thrown in honor of
the man who was a hero. He gave the last remarks of the evening and said, “I
just wanna know one thing. Who pushed me?”
It’s truly amazing how we will stay where we are and go to
where we could be until we are “pushed”. I am intimidated by the class and the
format. But I have been “pushed” and I will make the most out of this experience.
I am a social network dude. I Tweet and Face book all the time but juxtaposing that
with academic studies threw me off. Now I’m here and ready to swim in deep water
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