I Get It!! (I think?) /CMC11

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

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