A11.4: Week 11 Reflection

Aims and Objectives:

My goals for this week were:

• To take pictures of some augmentative devices that our clinic has available.  I want to do this to prepare my Power Point presentation.
• To complete my assignments.  I wanted to complete my assignments and learn from the experience.  I just didn’t want to do them, I wanted to really learn.  So my main goal was to not just do the assignment but to pay attention to what I was doing and what I was learning.
• To give my groupmates helpful suggestions about their projects.  I want to help my groupmates improve and I hope that they feel the same way.

Declarative Knowledge:

     This week I learned about the final type of digital literacy, socio-economic literacy.  I now know that this literacy helps individuals safely navigate the internet.  It includes knowing proper net-etiquette and being able to protect yourself from predators.  I also was able to learn from my groupmates suggestions.  These suggestions are helping me prepare for revisions to my project and improve upon my work.

Procedural Knowledge:

      This week I began my assignments by going to the class website.  I then responded to my groupmates fifth genre by going to their websites and reading their project.  I analyzed the project and I thought about how the project could be improved.  I posted my thoughts by using the comment feature.  I then researched socio-economic literacy by going to yahoo and typing in the words socio-economic literacy.    I know that I use Yahoo a lot but that is the search engine that I am most comfortable with so I tend to use it instead of other search engines.  I read some articles and gathered my thoughts on this literacy.  I then went to wordpress and posted this assignment.   I then did my journal entries.  My journal entries are my integrating genre so I thought of how I wanted to lead my audience to the answer to my question.  I structured this genre so that it would do this.  I wrote it out on wordpress and added in the links to my pages by highlighting the keywords and clicking on the chainlink.  I then typed in the address of the page and clicked save.  Next week I will add the link to my Power Point presentation.  This is how I completed my assignments this week.

Conditional Knowledge:

     Learning about the digital literacies has been very useful.  The one that I learned about this week will help me protect myself while I am surfing the net.  I think knowing about this will help me keep my kids safe in the future, if I have kids.  The integrating genre has taught me how I can integrate my work so that it becomes a comprehensive piece that answers and important question, which will be helpful to me as a student and professional.  Being able to grow and improve from suggestions will also help me as a future professional.   This is how I can use what I learned.

Question:

Should the integrating genre contain additional information or should it just make your project cohesive?