Final Week Assignment- Take a Selfie

5/3 Take a Selfie

As what I set at the beginning of the class, my learning objective was, and is continuing "learning as much as new forms of media and technologies that have already or will be used in those media". Now, at the very end of the semester, I can say I learned a lot from this class and yet those are only the beginning in my life-long journey of learning.

For each week's assignment, (in order to complete the homework) we have great opportunity to practice new media and new tools or technologies that would be used in the media project. Even though sometimes I felt there is too much too learn and what I learned in class was not enough for me to complete the homework - I had to go for Lynda.com or look for youtube tutorials to understand how to use the tool or the technology - I still feel blessed that I have a piece of valuable time to learn new forms of media and see what I can achieve with those forms of media and those new tools. It is also a great chance to learn how to learn by myself when I look back. I practiced video making and Scratch, learned how to use AI and Audacity, and tried my best to learn laser-cutting and circuits. There are lots of moments of "Oh my god I cannot do it" but thankfully I, or our team made it, and I believe those "wow" moments somehow enlighten the curiosity, in my mind, to know more and practice more - not only about know more interesting novel tools and technologies, but also dig deeper to investigate the media that I just learned to see what else I can make through it. It is like an adventure and it just began.