Project 3
was definitely the most different or unusual English project I have ever
encountered and accomplished. It not only has its own writing aspect, which I am
accustomed to, but it also has an audio aspect, which I have never worked with.
Also, the fact that interviews were used as evidence was very different from
having actual written peer reviewed sources. The project proved to be easy in some
ways as well as challenging in other parts of it.
Ultimately, I feel as if I did
somewhat well in finding a good topic that maybe not too many students think
about, but when prompted to think about my story had a lot of good opinions and
personal emotions to share about the argument or situation. Additionally, I feel
that I did a good job of showing some good back ground information on the topic
and also finding links and connections to similar topics in history. Furthermore,
I think my overall argument was solid with several interviews to back me up and
link to it.
I really struggled in a couple
areas of this project. The first big part that I struggled in was how to effectively
use the audio device or program Audacity. I understood the basics that I learned
from attending workshop and watching several YouTube videos, but I have never used
anything like it before, not even a little. It was like learning how to write
for the first time and so the basics helped me complete the project but I was
not even close to being efficient with it which meant that it took me a very
long and tedious time creating that audio portion of the project. Thus, in the
future if I ever decide to something with Audacity or any other recording program
I will make sure I am somewhat efficient with it. Moreover, I somewhat struggled
in finding good interviews that actually helped connect to my argument because some
students did not have much to say, or failed to elaborate more on their answers,
but in the end I ultimately found great interviews that went nicely together
with my report. Also, I found it somewhat hard to maybe make a strong emotional
connection to the students. I definitely had a connection but in my opinion
maybe a not a very strong one that really made it so that it effected every aspect
of the students. Furthermore, in the
future, it is very possible that I will have to apply this work that I used in
this project maybe on some sort of podcast, if I had to be a voice in a
documentary, or have an audio journal. When I do any one of these future projects,
this project will definitely be a great deal of help.
