GROUND ZERO: PRE- CT-101

Let’s take it back to the beginning, It’s September 1st I’m waking up on a Tuesday morning at 7am with my dog pulling my covers off.

Ugh I was so comfortable and I was not trying to get up but of course its another day, another class, and I can’t neglect my son so….

Fine Im up!!

Once I reluctantly roll out of bed, walk my dog, and clean his feet. I was in the need of some morning coffee.

Ahhh that better.

10am rolls around, Im 2 cups of coffee in, and I’m finally functioning… barley. Sign in to the the zoom call and at this point I’ve already got a glimpse of the class website and looked over the syllabus.

Blogging, Digital Storytelling Projects, Commenting/Critiquing, Reading Responses, Social Media Projects and…

Personal Website

This was my reaction after reading that….

I was intrigued but skeptical at the same time. I’ve had professors in the past clam that we were going to do some cool activities and it turn out to be a sham. I was not about to get duped another time. I popped into the class armed with this information but took it all with a grain of salt..

Before the first day of the CT-101

After the first day of CT-101

THE RISE: POST DAY 1

After getting to meet Professor Seslow. I quickly figured out that he was the real deal.

So to you Sir..

After he laid down the ground work of the semester. We as a class just took off and after 8 weeks I can easily say that I’ve learn more useful and reliable things in this class then I have in any other class to this day.

This class has allowed me to appreciate the internet in a new way and i feel that my communication skills in the virtual world has improved tremendously because it.

I mean this post is an encapsulation of that improvement. I now know how to find and make GIFS and MEMES. I have become proficient in using WordPress and have may own website.

But my greatest accomplishment for these first 8 weeks is that I have finally succeeded in transferring my personality into the virtual world.

And we’re only half way through the semester in. There’s no telling where we are going to be by the end and that is the amazing part about it. We decide what that will look like.

The sky’s the limit.

THE PRESENT: WHERE I STAND

I personally feel that I have gotten better as the weeks have passed with each of my post.

Douchebag Darrell meme

Chuck Norris meme

I personally think my post on the internet boy was my most authentic emotional reaction. But my post Website up and running is the best at creating a story and taking you into a detailed step by step process of my journey building my website.

But there’s always room for improvement.

As I transition into working on my own website and essentially taking the training wheels off. I really want to improve my skill of working with different mediums to enhance my story telling skills.

Maybe i should mess around with more DS106 projects? I really want to learn how to incorporate audio more in my post. I want to add as many tool to my arsenal so I can start thinking outside the box and really push my skills to the limit.

Overall, I think my progression in this class has been pretty smooth. I enjoy that I can work on my assignments when I really have time to sit down and commit my full attention.

This is one of the few classes I have attended where I put my undivided attention and give my maximum effort to each and every assignment. This is not say I don’t try in my other classes. I just don’t feel as inclined and motivated in some of my other classes because of how repetitive they are. they don’t deviate from the formula and that puts me to sleep. This class provides me with the energy to keep pushing forward to innovate and that is hard to find these days when you’re stuck at home all day.

THE FUTURE: LOOKING FOWARD

Right Now, I feel just as committed to this class as I have been since the start. More so now than ever since I have my own website. I hope that my skills continue to improve and I hope that my website transforms into the vision I have in my head.