Most of the things posted by Jane were new things that I hadn’t really heard of except for Creative Commons, Twitter, and embedding photos and videos into my blog. Besides those, everything else was new to me. One post which did end up giving me significant insight was my Wordle post. As I mentioned in the previous post, I think that this one was insightful because it allowed me to see words that I frequently use and words that I have a tendency of overusing. Hopefully through this non-traditional source I will be able to better enhance my writing in the future.
In terms of posts, my favorite one was post seven which was about making multi-media stories with Storify. I thought this was an awesome website which I was surprised to have never heard of or used before. Since that post I have been visiting the site fairly often (3-4 times per week) and have discovered some awesome people to follow on Twitter.
I also felt as if I discovered new things that are applicable to both life now as well as after Coe. One post which helped me for my day-to-day life now is Scrivener. I think that it is always a great idea to have a way to manage large projects in our ever increasingly digital world (although using traditional pen and paper still works well for me). I also think that social bookmarking and annotating is useful for life now because it seems as if it’s a vital tool for students like me who tend to take a lot of notes and use many different sources. As for after graduation and after Coe, the one new thing that I think will be most useful is the visual thesaurus tool. As I mentioned in that post, I am a word nerd and I enjoy using thesauruses and therefore any means for discovering new words through non-traditional means is helpful. I also think that Twitter is useful for life after Coe. I came to this realization after I got this Tweet from Bruce Braley:
“@azhirsch: @brucebraley #Coe Dems want to bring you to campus this semester. Possible?” Anything is possible, Alex. Contact Jake Oeth.
— Bruce Braley (@BruceBraley) February 21, 2013
As a final conclusion I would say that the process of using this blog and “self-discovering” was extremely beneficial to my growth as a writer. I have come to the realization that in life I will be on my own for a while with simple goals or mile-stones to achieve so to speak. A boss may tell me to have something in by a certain date but that will be it –the way I go about accomplishing it is up to me. That’s why I liked this project so much. It allowed me to work as I pleased and as a result I can say that I can walk away from this assignment with a lot more knowledge than when I started and that what I learned will help me in my future endeavors.
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