Port­fo­lio Re­flec­tion

What have I learned?

In project 1, I learn not only the skills to making a video for the first time, but I also learn how to explore storytelling from a viewpoint of telling a close-personal story and concerning the struggle to have bias emotions and thoughts about the concept since of the story is very close and significant to me.

From Project 2,I think it’s a fair assessment to say that  thoroughly learned a lot about analyzing but also using the 12 forms of Information Paradigm. I like searching and learning about each category of the information paradigm into explaining how Information, Argument and Knowledge reaches out to the other categories of Information Paradigm. For me, I the things that were new for were learning about the discourse community, trying to understand the meaning of discipline and researching what my discipline does for the major.

In Project 3-looking into the various areas of identifying ourselves by self-reflection, analyzation of our data footprints/daily agenda, learning about the various filters-my favorite was the filtered self and selfie article are my favorite parts of this section.

How did I learn?

I think I mainly learn from practicing a lot and going through the revising process helped me grasp a better understanding of each concept from each project. Some of my personal examples are: Project 1-In storytelling belief project- a main input I need to focus on was not just telling a story but when doing the revision to my video-I had to consider how it all flowed together from a sound and visual standpoint of my audience; Project 2- I learn a lot more when I revise this project where I added in-text citations and other examples of my pages of Information, Argument and Knowledge where each category are supported from the other areas of the Information Paradigm; Project 3-I think I learn by really taking the time to follow my visions from experience. This essentially was high based on using my creative side to my advantage which included research, experience and guess-and-checks.

After reviewing my portfolio..

After I finally manage to overcome a mind block and solving how to technologically put together all my projects and assignments together. Exploring each link all over again reminded me of all the things I struggled with over the course of the semester, but also some improvements on how I see the importance/significance of Information Paradigm, Story telling mode and Project 3 that deals with the digital self. Furthermore, after going through each link and more self-reflection, I realized how audience was a main focus to keep in mind for not only telling the story but also keeping in mind how they can easily hear and see such emotion and feelings I have experience. In addition, Project 2 and Project 3 dealt a lot purpose and distinction of various information and knowledge of a community (in Project 2) to self (Project 3); Distinction for both project was important to establish information beyond just facts and the various forms of writing in project 2, and identifying other forms of digstal self in Project 3 such as the filtered digital viewpoint, selfie, dataism -digital footprint and all, etc.

 

Bonus Exercise- Create, Innovate & Explain

After briefly skimming through the subjects  I was going to choose from. The words “artisanal culture” catches my attention and curiosity as I did not really know the what in the world thing was about. After reading this article, here are some of the things that popped-up in my head. 1. We as a society have evolve into appreciate the very nature of hard work, nature at it’s prime estate and we are suckers for why we should buy such business. The last comment was from the idea from a TED talk I have watched-on why successful business are great at selling their products. The ted Talk “How great leaders inspire action,” by Simon Sinek talks about how people buy such products because of how the business sells the product by providing “why” answers to the people. In some shape of form the word why is powerful and strong when it comes to challenging people’s knowledge and intellectual means of craving. The way he explain such theory of using the vision of explaining and providing answers of why to the consumer is not only a great way to understand business or leaders, but in this article it is relevant in providing a perspective of how we are fond of creativity/innovation at its’s best or at a form where we have not thought about such idea/thought.

Another comment I presented above was how we have evolve into appreciating the very nature of hard work. One of the things that the article “The Artisanal Movement, and 10 Things that Define it” mentions was going over history of how the La Brea Bakery came to Los Angeles- providing a remarkable  revolution to providing a variety of flavorful bread. The thought of where I was going with this idea is from how this article inclusively defines our society as people who are all interested in buying at Farmer’s markets and wanting to buy people’s labor which was something the new industrial revolution of American history have shifted away from after the revolution and technology that had emerge from the creation of the railroad from our American History. This article fails to include such other forms of ideas that not everyone has the money to afford buying really over price/all-natural/”organic” food. Maybe from my experience and such knowledge of having not having enough money to pay for quality food is not of a priority in mind as a broke college student who is in-depth about more than 10 grand, but who cares…point is, this article is a little bit to exclusive for the typical people of Boulder and is very inclusive of peoples’ change of action when it comes to genuinely choosing what to eat, how their food should be handled, and where their food comes from. This article does not really speak for why this society provides such malnutritous and cheap food to the majority of our nation where in return most people are dying early and are living off mainly junk food and chemicals that is harming the body to such unknown degree-but it is really bad and upsetting.

My last comment was about why we care so much for the effect of “nature at it’s prime estate”. What I mean by this is like experience that is under­stood, rep­re­sented, ex­pressed, expe­ri­enced and per­formed by the very nature of why we buy we would buy food is solely based on moments we connect our thoughts, taste buds, feelings, emotions from past experiences to new and a creative process of feeling/expressing/performing… experience. Creativity is solely base on our past experiences and forms of “knowledge” we attain and/or try to understand (based on creativity part of Project 3).

Like life that mainly goes through a cycle, we carry such thoughts and ways of doing through going through experiences, reliving past history of our experiences-knowledge and trying to new things that we are not aware of and then go through the cycle over and over again but with new forms of experiences and other twists that makes life worth it.