A Look Back..

Writing for Non- Print Media has really made me think back to my high school days and examine what I did in high school and I’d like to share some of my thoughts on that… I always had highly structured classrooms that focused on grammar and sentence structure; I loved these classes, but I did not find myself challenged to show any type of creativity what-so-ever. I was perfectly okay with that, in fact I loved it.  I have never been good at arts and crafts or creating a project that was outside the norm; essays were where I excelled.  Until my senior year, I scheduled to have a few English electives that forced me to think outside the box.  The major assignment for one of them was to journal throughout the semester; generally three were due at the end of each week.  The only issue with the journal was that it could not be just written in paragraph form.  The goal was to create art with our words and thoughts. At the time I hated it, looking back though I am really thankful for it.  Even though my drawing never turned out quite as planned I managed to get my point across.  It forced me out of my comfort zone and I now understand that my teacher was asking us to respond in a multimodal format, he just never put a name to it.  I think that type of learning is crucial in developing a well-rounded student and wish that I would have exposed myself to it earlier in my educational career.