Blog 20: Monthly Blog

For this month I have been working tirelessly on my senior project. I have learned that a lot of time and effort needs to be put into senior project and in my mentorship. Mostly what I have been doing for my senior project is doing my mentorship and doing lots of reading of articles and books that will help me in the future and for my presentation coming up this year. I learned that everything that I am working on is going to help better prepare myself for what lies ahead. 

With my mentorship I have been working tirelessly on getting my hours up from my mentorship and working on getting something published. I also have been working with a book called Don't Forget to Write! 

this book has helped me shape my senior project presentation and gave me some wonderful ideas on activities needed. It also had great information on writing and what to do when stuck in a rut.  I used this book and one called Print is Dead as examples in my research and presentation.

Blog 19: Independent component 2

LITERAL

(a) “I, Sarah Regan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours of work.”(b) Wattpad.com was one really good source as well as a book by the author of Megan Keneally. (c) With this component I learned how to really work on writing and edit my work and also learned how the online publishing process works.     INTERPRETIVE 

Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   

I chose to write a short story and publish it online to get the experience of publishing something online and getting feed back from the readers. This component is significant because my topic is on publishing and what electronic publishing really means to the consumer and so I took that into consideration and decided to do something electronically to get and inside few to the publishing world online. It demonstrates 30 hours of work because a lot of time went into planning how the story will go and then it took about 12- 14 hours of writing to actually went into this project and also the editing itself took up a lot of time and energy. of course all of this was done electronically and was very interesting to actually see happen. 

APPLIED

How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. This component helped me answer my essential question because it had me really try and work on something to get it published. I published electronically to get a feel for the publishing world online but also to help me understand who would be able to see my work. after I published this short story I got a few comments on it that I thought were kind of inspiring and it gave me a sense of how quickly you can accomplish something while publishing online.

This comment was given 4 hours after I had published my work and I thought it was inspiring.

Monthly Blog: March

For this month I have been working for a new mentor and also having some fun learning how to create things with different programs. This mentorship has given me a chance to feel what its like to work on something and then have it published for everyone to see. It gave me an opportunity to really get into the world of preparing and publishing a work and then having responses given back to me.

this is a picture of one slide that I have done in a power point that was used in my mentorship.

this picture represents part of a weekly bulletin that I help create and send out at my mentorship.

Blog #15: Independent component 2

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For this component I will be writing a short story and i will be publishing it online. This story and publishing will teach me how fast you are able to publish electronically and how long the process of writing and editing is. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will take pictures and have snippets of my writing that shows that I have officially accomplished 30 hours of  my component.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This component gives me the ability to explore my topic because it gives me a chance to work on something to publish. Do some editorial publishing and also give me a chance to do something in the field of electronic publishing itself. This will have a great effect on my senior project presentation be cause i will be able to use some of the information I find on publishing electronically to help explain my project better.