Week #12

(Wednesday, November 22, 2006)

I am feeling confident about the progress that I have made on my portfolio for it to be ready next week. All of the projects, including the bibliography, have been completed. I simply have to write my reflection on each project. I have not began writing my self-assessment and last word assignment, but I have a few ideas in mind for each of those.
I like how the majority of today’s class and the past few weeks have been spent looking at everyone’s progress on portions of their portfolios. It’s great how everyone has had equal opportunity to share their work with the class. I have found it interesting how different groups have interpreted projects in unique ways. I’ve especially enjoyed watching the image curations, because every group has been different in their approach.
The last project that my group completed was the image curation, which we were prepared to present in class today, but it did not play for some reason. We did have the opportunity, however, to watch the curations of a few other groups within the class. I especially enjoyed watching one that a few people had created that was a series of images from the news. Some of these images were very recognizable; for example, the bodies piled in the Buchenwald concentration camp following World War II or more recently, photographs taken outside Dawson in Montreal, where the shooting took place this past month. In between a series of images would be a quote from Shakespeare, which I found very effective in delivering the message. My group chose to focus on images that evoked emotion as well, but in a much different way. Our images were all close-up shots of individual’s faces, each of which evoked a different emotion, whether or not that emotion was obvious.