Week 1 Reflection Activity

I was very excited to start this course. In fact I had all of my reading completed before the class had officially started.

I was the first one in the class to post on the reading discussion board about the reading assignments and the significant quote which was from an article called, “Visual Acuity: from Consumers to Critics and Creators” were Ellis stated, “We were educated to read actively, yet we’re conditioned to view visual images passively”. This quote really made me think that this is true for my generation but is not true for today's k-12 student. They have learned through experience to interact with multimedia tools.

For myself I am learning to interact more with multimedia interfaces.

This week, I ran into some problems about the first week assignment number two. I knew we were going to have to work in a group for the other assignments. The assignment for week 1 stated that we would be working with a partner from our group and that we had to ensure that each of our group members has had the opportunity to interview and be interviewed (Course Syllabus). The major problem was me is, I had no idea who my group members are.
I noticed that other students in the course also had the same question. I did not see any official response to the questions about groups.

I assume some of them paired off. I have emailed some of them; I think they have all already paired up. Looks like I’m on my own on this one. I will interview someone else who is not in my course instead and have them interview me so that I may complete the project.
I am sure the next weeks assignments will run a little more smoothly for me.

Thanks!

Sandra Villarreal
Blogs to follow for Weeks 2 and 5

Works Cited:
Ellis, K. (2005). Visual acuity: From consumers to critics and creators. Edutopia. Retrieved May 30, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/print/1321.