So It Ends…Will It?
Monday, June 9th, 2008I certainly became a better writer that cares. Through my project, I had real audience. In order to succeed, I had to have a good writing that catches people. I’ve learned to make the title catching, and I’ve learned to make sure the audience wanted to read. To do that, I had to think about the sentence styles, order of what I write about, and maybe throwing some nice metaphors. I’m starting to care about what I write a lot. And one can observe my improvement in writing if one reads my own blog.
As a thinker, I’ve learned to think. After doing a project about something I’m interested in, I’ve learned to think in my own way, that things I like can turn into something like this. After realizing this, I’ve learned to write about things that I like. And to me, writing is just like thinking. When I write about something I like, then I feel good. I’ve learned that ultimately, I would want to please the audience, but it all starts from pleasing myself with my own thoughts.
As a producer, I’ve learned that I’m a producer now. I produce things. I’ve produced my website, I’ve produced the interviews, and I’ve produced the productivity. I never turned in anything. Everything I did in this class, was what I produced. I’ve learned that by producing, I can learn more.
As a networker, I’m not a big user of twitter. But using our connection, we’ve reached three big-time interviewees. One of the tools that helped us was facebook. There are many “non-educational’ ways to use facebook, but it still keeps people in touch. It’s easy to contact people, and it’s easy to expand my network by becoming friends with my friends’ friends. This method led us to interview three big basketball figures in Asia. Connection is important, because with one, you can have a million.
As a problem-solver, I’ve learned to consider everything possible. One of the problems we had in our project was the contact with Graham Bensinger. It was great that we got into cantact with him, but we just couldn’t arrange the time for our interview. We’ve exchanged tons of emails trying to figure out the time. When we finally did, about 6 hours before the time arranged to interview, the time difference between Korea and US changed because USA just entered the spring time. So we could never do our interview. The problem was the time difference. But I’ve failed to consider USA entering the spring time. After that, we fortunately got new interviews, so we never contacted Graham anymore. Mr. Burell did suggest some video chats that we could do regardless of the time difference, but interviews are live, and I wanted to do it live. For the next interviews, I made sure the time difference didn’t change. So maybe it’s not as a problem solver, but I’ve learned to learn from the mistakes.
Again, I thank Mr. Burell for this revolutionary class. It was the only real experience I had at school.
