For Journal #5: Look back over your past humanities courses and assignments and identify three-four of the following: most memorable work(s) you encountered, questions you still think about, a sample of your work you’re most proud of or one you wish you could do over. Write a post that describes what you did then and what you notice about that work now. You’ll drawn from this initial “inventory” (to anticipate a term from Newstok) when you select a revision project.

Three of the past humanities courses that still stand out as being very memorable for me today are; Indigenous Film and Literature, Reading and Writing in a Digital Environment, and Women in the Modern World. All three of these courses were taken the first two years of my college career.

The first course and the assignment that stood out to me as something interesting that I wrote about was in Indigenous Film and Lit with Professor McHugh. It is an essay that I did with my final project in the course on the need to respect Indigenous peoples voices. I got to take the three novels read from the course and connect them to my research project. The research that I did for this course utilized UNE’s library archive, from which we focused on primary documents from the Donna M. Loring collection. I remember this project being difficult for me to connect my ideas and find which documents would work the best from the collection to support my thoughts. Also this course was taken my second semester of college. There was a lot I didn’t know and completing a college level research project was something new and different. I remember I did a presentation of my paper and research and got so frazzled that I froze and forgot what I was saying. If this project was done today there would be a lot more organization from myself and I would feel more confident in my abilities. 

The second work that I identified  as something memorable and interesting came from a summer course taken the summer before my sophomore year. This course was Reading and Writing in the Digital Environment taught by Professor Cripps. This class was one of my favorites because it had so many elements like an ongoing project of updating my e-Portfolio and even a section on basic computer coding. The assignment that stood out the most was the daily creates. DS106 is an ongoing online project that encourages creativity through the use of digital story telling. Every day a prompt is of some kind is posted on the DS106 website and you get to read and interpret the prompt any way you want. The responses are posted on twitter using the #tdc… and the number that corresponds to the post for that day. This project was so much fun and I remember wanting to continue to do the daily creates even after the course was finished. It would be interesting to maybe challenge myself to doing a daily create response for a month and reflect on that experience. Heres a link to one of my favorite daily creates assignment completed in this course. 

The third assignment that I wish is memorable but I wish I could redo is from my Women in the Modern World course with Professor DeWolfe. I took this my Spring semester of my sophomore year of college and found the course to be really interesting. For part of our final exam we were tasked to write 3 short essays that focused on using the books read from the second half of the course, take a topic, such as women’s clothing, and connect what I learned about that topic to the novels. As this was for the final exam my writing seemed very rushed and some of my ideas don’t really make a whole lot of sense. I think what I was trying to say was good and some of my connections to the topic and the novels were good but the execution was not. I remember that we didn’t have to do a research project on this since it was for the final so I think taking what I did with this paper and connecting it with some other research would create a more cohesive project.