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Black and White to Color

I’ve grown and learned alot as a writer in this class. Or, I should say that I forced myself to change. I’ve been told a lot by Mr. Burell that my writing has no voice in it. He said it was only schooly and that I don’t add my voice in it. He is true, my writing style is schooly, and this was how i was taught. I think that my writings are like a black and white TV show. It’s like a show or writing piece without color. Now I’ve learned more about using similies, metaphor, and other adjectives and adverbs that make my writing better. Because, I’ve been only using words and vocabularies that expressed my thoughts too directly.
Now, that I have some ideas about writing with voice and color, I had to learn to find an idea or topic to write about. It took me a really long time to just think about a topic and write about it. This led me to write really random posts about anything I thought was good fora blog. But, it was like searching for soap that fell in a bathtub. I had hard time trying to come up with an idea that would actually be good for my blog. Even when I get idea, as I write the idea would just slip away like a soap.

I don’t think that I’ve grown a lot as a producer, because all the blogs I wrote I only posted them up on our class blog. I didn’t do anything special. Only thing that was different from what I normally do was the interview I did about restaurant design.

As a social, networker I don’t think that I changed a lot. I had chances to interact with people outside my country by using twitter and skipe, but I did not much use these. I didn’t have much interist in talking and interacting with people who I don’t even know. I could get help in some projects or assignment from the, but I think that there are other ways I could get help. I still have my way of interacting with people online, but I think that I just don’t seem to use online tools as much.

As a problem solver, I grew a lot. I learned a lot of new technological things. I did improve as a bloger and in using computer. I learned a lot of convinient thinkgs about using internet and solving technological difficulties. I firstly learned how to use firefox, and a lot of other tabs. I learned that interisting and unique topics would bring in a lot of viewers from all around the world.

Over all, I think that this class really helped me as a learner and writer. It drifted me away from the schooly thinkings and got me to think as an individual. I learned to use my thoughts and ideas as something I could publicly show.

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