Reflective: Thoughtful, Meditative, Contemplative, Pondering, Speculative, Pensive

So this being my final blog post for Digital Civilization, I can't say that I'm terribly upset.

I began this course with absolute hatred. Blogging being the main target of my distaste.

I just felt that it was annoying and useless for me to write 2-3 blog posts a week. Plus, it took me a long time to read all the information, do some self-directed learning, AND write an acceptable blog post about what I learned.

But as the class continued and I got the chance to meet more people in our class, I won't lie, I actually began to like the class.

Someone that I befriended in the beginning and made the class bearable was Erin Hamson. She and I were the only freshman in the course, at least I'm pretty sure we were. We sat together the first day and from then we were class buddies. We were in the same group for the mini book club project. Which we all enjoyed doing. We read the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. This project, while at first I thought was going to be a pain, I really enjoyed doing. My choice of project to do about the book was a photo project. It was a lot of fun to do and I feel like it expressed the point of the book well.
So thanks Erin! You really helped me survive this class. 

I feel like this picture expresses my initial feelings of the course very well.

So what have I learned from this class?

Way too much...

But at least it will help me as I acclimate to the whole college thing. 

Self Directed Learning: It took me a LONG time to get use to this. But it has definitely grown on me. I discovered I could find details about topics that I WANTED to learn about. A whole new revelation to me. I suppose an example of this would be my blog post about the Triangle Factory Fire concerning the Industrial Revolution --> The Girls

It also just so happens that this post is my most "popular" post. It seems like many people liked how I presented my information.  

The Web: The online world is HUGE. Even bigger than the planet it lives on. While before the class, I had accepted the fact that I would only be knowledgeable in what I had been taught to use, this class has expanded my options greatly. I can be a digital citizen. 

All in all, this class will be missed. I have enjoyed growing and learning with all our connections of history and the digital world. 

I have yet to figure out what I might blog about in the future..But I assure you, it will be spectacular.