Captured Thought: Mashup Effect

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.