A12.7: Week 12 Reflection

Aims and Objectives:

My goals for this week were:

• To complete my PowerPoint presentation.
• To go back and review my previous work.
• To learn more about digital literacy

 Declarative Knowledge:

This week I learned how to put a PowerPoint presentation on my weblog.  It wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be.  I integrated my work on the types of digital literacy and learned that this literacy is very important and will continue to impact our society.  I also learned what a preface and the acknowledgements of a piece of work should contain.  Now I might just read those two sections of books.

Procedural Knowledge:

To begin my assignments I wrote the About the Author section of my work.  To do this I went back to my previous introduction and revised it a little.  I then went to wordpress and published my work.  I added this work to the Multi-genre research project page that I have developed.  I then went to the class webpage and read what a preface and acknowledgements section should contain.  I thought about why I did my project and who I would want to thank.  I posted these on wordpress.  I then responded to my groupmates sixth 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 reviewed what I had previously learned about the types of digital literacies and combined what I had learned into a comprehensive piece of work.  Throughout the week I developed my PowerPoint by using the program.  I selected the layouts and backgrounds that I wanted.  I used pictures that I had taken of devices available at Marshall and some from websites.  Once this was completed I went to wordpress and uploaded the file.  When it was uploaded I sent it to my page.  I then completed my weekly reflection.

Conditional Knowledge:

Learning about digital literacy has been very helpful to me.  It has helped me sharpen my skills and be a better student.  The PowerPoint presentation is very useful because you can use them for so many things.  I like how professional they make your work look. 

Question:

When is our final work due on the MRP?