Jessica's Blog

  Blogging this semester has been quite interesting. I've never blogged before, but I found it quite easy. I thought it was easy to integrate some of the readings into what I had to see. While I probably won't use blogger again (unless I choose to use it with my students...still undecided) I can see how many people would enjoy it as it's like a journal or diary. I am usually just too shy to put my thoughts out there and receive feedback. Fortunately, my peers in this class had plenty of good things to say, so the pressure was off.  I also really enjoyed reading my peers blogs. It was nice to read their thoughts and I realized that many of us think quite alike. I think my favorite blog was #7 where I was able to see everyone's multimodal composition for the book they read. I suddenly have an extensively long list of books I want to read! Overall, it was a good experience and I feel like it will only be to my advantage to have learned this skill. While I don't think m...

  I read the book Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman. I decided to make an info-graphic for my mini multi-modal composition because I wanted to make a timeline of events. I used Visme and here's the link for my project:  https://my.visme.co/view/vdkyprjp-dry-timeline I've done info-graphics in the past and I feel like they are so easy to use and you can create a whole different project every time. This was my first time using the charts and graphs feature. I have mixed emotions about how the project turned out. I wish I would've done the timeline in landscape rather than portrait. I think I would've had more room to work and it wouldn't look so chaotic. Yet, I like the chaos because the whole premise of the novel is frenzied and chaotic on their search for water. So in a way the squished timeline really works. I love the color scheme, because it nearly matches the colors on the book cover and the colors are warm indicating heat and dryness. I think the colors are a ...