Ignite Talk

I apologize for my stuttering and shakyness. I'm not much of a speaker but here is my video of my Ignite talk! It was fun to make but a bit terrifying to do.

My Blog Reflection

When given this assignment, I thought about it a lot. It was hard for me not to do the typical "I was once lost but now I am found". I feel that over time we are conditioned to look at learning as a very linear, where you have to pass one test and go on to the next to be adequately prepared for anything, especially pertaining to schooling. When looking at the picture in class it was a rude awakening to me because it showed me how close minded the school system is. When preparing for college there was a long list of things that had to be completed before being able to apply. There were many tests and preparation for tests that would build on themselves. I then thought about my learning in my English class and tried to think about it in a way other than a linear fashion. For a while, I couldn't come up with it. I looked back at my reaction to the picture in class and it seemed that I still didn't understand it. I looked back through my blog posts and all I could think was how linear it seemed my learning was. Over time my posts become longer and in more detail and with documentation with pictures. But then I thought about individual projects and realized my learning is very all over that place and in some ways may not always be productive. But I would look at what I had to do and would sit and think about what I wanted to do the project on. I would then do the work given to me and go over it. Then usually realize in the end that I want to do it another way or something completely different so I would go back and change it and through out the entire process it seemed I would do this back and forth motion with my learning in almost a zig zag pattern until I would get to the end product. This to me is very evident in my "Behind My Words" post which was about one of my call for papers I did. I remember I would come up with an idea to document my process then scrap it and try something different. I didn't really show where I got the idea on the topic in the first place. We were told to write on a third paper and I chose the "What is Perfection?" paper. I just documented my writing because at the time I already had an opinion on the whole subject, but what I didn't add was that throughout my adolescence, I have on many cases struggled with eating disorders and unhealthy relationships a lot of the time pertaining to my body. I have seen therapist and psychiatrists and since have over come my issues. But when I really decided my stance on the subject was about the time of my sophomore year in high school. I was at the gym and passed out. I hadn't eaten all day and had been working out for 2 hours. When I came to all I could think about was how annoying and unfair it is that I have to feel the need to look a certain way for others and how hungry I was haha. Since then I my perspective pertaining to beauty in any way has related to that.