Famous Last Words : The End is Near

I completed my final revisions for my storybook and looked over my blog again. I decided that I will leave my blog up for now but am considering creating a new one just for me. I began limiting my social media posts about a year ago as I learned more about how companies research their candidates. Literally, everything is going digital in some form or another. I am leaving my storybook as a site for anyone to view. I am very pleased with it and it was fun to complete. I plan on sharing it with my family so they can check it out too. Hopefully, I can inspire my children to create their own site this summer also.

Looking back, I wish had completed just a couple extra credit assignments each week. It is never a good feeling to know that you were so close to that next grade, but just didn’t quite make it. This class gives you ample opportunities to cushion yourself so there is not an excuse. I wonder if I wasn’t as strict with the assignments because they were not being “graded” per se, it was more of an accomplishment grade. Either way, I learned a lot about my writing and woke up my creative side of my brain. It was good to expand my horizons outside of the realm of just writing research or opinion papers.

I hope that everyone in the class could finish their storybook to the level that they wanted and that the rest of their finals go great. I am ready for my three-week break before summer session starts. I usually read for pleasure and during the summer I easily churn through a book every few days. This semester three of my classes were very heavy on reading, so I think I’m burnt out for a while. I’ve only had a 4-day break between January intersession and Spring semester so it feels like I have had school non-stop since August. I think I will spend some time just chilling with the family before it starts all over again.

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Improvements

I love the idea of the themed reading units. It was kind of difficult to narrow down what to do my storybook over because there were so many options available. I think the themed units for the Indian Epics class would be very beneficial for those who want to do a storybook since they would already have a taste of what the different types of stories were like.

I didn't use the story planning option this semester but wish that I would have. I think it would have been beneficial to use with my storybook and perhaps made coming up with each page a bit easier. Also, receiving feedback on the story planning ideas would help to make the pages better the first time around.