Blog # 14: Reflexion of Media Unit

In the beginning of the Media unit I thought it would be easy for me because I saw those two movies the Truman Show and The Matrix (which I really enjoy) but I really didn’t see that both of them had a true meaning hiding inside them. Which make it a little bit difficult for me to analyze and put it in writing, for example the blog # 13 that was the most difficult for me. I thought it would be easy to explain it and write about it but it became hard for me to express my opinion, because the way I saw things on Truman it was not correct for the class; I kind of got lose on it. Now the matrix was not that bad but I had some problems with it too, about the meaning of it. The blue pill or red pills and how it relate to Alice in wonderland and Plato’s The Republic; the allegory of the cave, in the article of Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson was very tricky to analyze and respond.

On Google Doc I felt more at ease with it. It helped me a lot on the blogs that we had to do. But for some reason some of them didn’t get save in Dr. X sheet which I was worry that she would of thinks that I didn’t do my work.  But they main idea of the Google doc help me a lot. Now on the group work I still find it difficult to work with others, but I have to learn to cope with it and listen to other opinion on things. The forms help a lot on this unit as well, it give me inside on things we have to write about. Like that cartoon name Calvin and Hobbes, it was very funny how they saw the world around them.

The CAT-W exams were really helpful in the way that I now see how it looks like and with the writing assessment analytic rubric score that make me aware that I need to work on. On the first CAT#1 I fail bad but at the same token I saw what was my strength and weakness on my writing style. I hope I did a good job on the blog# 13 that was to revise the CAT#1. I believe I need more time to write a good essay to pass the final CAT, but I know it’s only 1hour and 30 minutes and I need to focus to use my time well and not repeat myself as I did on the CAT #1 and CAT #2 was a bit hard as well cause I didn’t have enough time to finish it and write more ideas. I hope in the future I can manage my time well and have a passing grade on the final CAT.

In general this media unit was a big piece of work, hope I did well on it so I can move on to the next unit. If not please let me know what I should do to better understand this unit. Like I told you I thought it would be a walk in the park but I got fool.