Captured Thought: Mashup Effect
As a happy and sad final semester of highschool year, I have to admit that the quarter flew by quickly without me noticing that it will soon come to an end. However, on the other hand, I realized that our class has been through many interesting and meaningful tasks this quarter as well. If I had to choose one of the most interesting activity that caught my thought instantly, it had to be the mashup project that we did about the book Letters To a Young Poet. To put this more clearly, This was one of the few projects that I actually spent good amount of time on and loved doing. According to my memory, I believe that the project progressed and improved rather quickly as I got much deeper into the project. I also started to realize the meaning of the project as I became more familiar to the entire structure of the project.
To be more specific on my thought process, I honestly did not have any opinion about what mashup actually was. It started out as me finding sources to use for the entry and therefore, seemed more like a fact listing activity. However, I was soon to find out that it was not the intent of this activity and that it was 180 degrees around. It was more like brainstorming the idea and listing possible connection. After that, I could easily connect the sources and make it flow as if it was a single writing piece. The most important message that I've received during the activity was that as I start putting the information down, I could arrange the other information so that it can form a perfect puzzle. I might be exagerating a little but the information truly did fit like a puzzle. As a lesson from this project, I've learned the importance of brainstorming and in what way it can help me organize my thought and connect the dots together. After all, the mashup project will remain as one of my favorite activity of the year.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Metacognition: The Mashup Process
Metacognition: The Mashup Process
As a first step in the process, it was necessary that I had to choose a "theme" that I had to choose in order to focus my thinking to. As my selection I chose love as my choice without thinking much about other topics. One of the reason was that I believed many parts in the book that described about the love and why it is so important. When I started looking and finding for the sources, I was confused and lost, thinking that there is no way I can finish this project in the time frame that I set. However, this way of thinking was going to change vastly as I went more deep into the subject.
It has been almost an hour gathering informations and try to figure them in order so my mashup can flow like it has been planned from beginning. To be honest, this part troubled me in a way that I had to organized the information that I've gathered from variety of sources and had to make them "flow". However, this process became so much easier as I continued on throughout the project. My thought process became famiar to the process and I was able to remember the past sources and connect it to the next one with only few troubles.
As I got closer to ending the process, I've learn that our minds and thought process work so much more efficient as we start a certain thinking and learn about the process. I liked how my thinking that it would take me hours and worrying about the process changed 180 degrees around as I worked on the project. In addtion, I thinking that this project was most engaging and enjoyable project that we did throughout the year. By doing the project I learned how to connect the sources and themes that are similar and make them into one smooth writing. For next time, I'm planning to use this thought process when I'm working on other essays and variety of writings in school
As a first step in the process, it was necessary that I had to choose a "theme" that I had to choose in order to focus my thinking to. As my selection I chose love as my choice without thinking much about other topics. One of the reason was that I believed many parts in the book that described about the love and why it is so important. When I started looking and finding for the sources, I was confused and lost, thinking that there is no way I can finish this project in the time frame that I set. However, this way of thinking was going to change vastly as I went more deep into the subject.
It has been almost an hour gathering informations and try to figure them in order so my mashup can flow like it has been planned from beginning. To be honest, this part troubled me in a way that I had to organized the information that I've gathered from variety of sources and had to make them "flow". However, this process became so much easier as I continued on throughout the project. My thought process became famiar to the process and I was able to remember the past sources and connect it to the next one with only few troubles.
As I got closer to ending the process, I've learn that our minds and thought process work so much more efficient as we start a certain thinking and learn about the process. I liked how my thinking that it would take me hours and worrying about the process changed 180 degrees around as I worked on the project. In addtion, I thinking that this project was most engaging and enjoyable project that we did throughout the year. By doing the project I learned how to connect the sources and themes that are similar and make them into one smooth writing. For next time, I'm planning to use this thought process when I'm working on other essays and variety of writings in school
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