Blog 8

The texts that I enjoyed throughout this course were The Arrival, spirited away and also Life is Strange. I enjoyed those because they were the most interesting to me and kept me wanting to read/ play more. Also for me not being such a huge fan of this topic I didn't think I would have enjoyed reading different things that I am not used to doing but it was a really good change for me. I also enjoyed even though it wasn't a required reading, I enjoyed playing professor Shannon's challenge because the type of game play and reading was thriller and horror and that it right up there with the types of shows and movies that I like to watch. Times that I felt least engaged in were in we would talk about the text with our peers around us. I know for me I didn't really engage with many people throughout this course one because I sort of isolated myself because I don't want to say something wrong or act like I have no idea what I am talking about because I don't know much about this course. So it was kind of like I didn't want to look "dumb" because I didn't know much. I do blame that on myself because I should have gotten outside my comfort zone. I think that the few times when we broke in groups was when I talked more because it was only a few of us in a group so it's like I felt more comfortable. That is when I felt more engaged and also writing the blogs is also when I felt more engaged because then I could express how I felt in other ways rather than speaking it out loud, I had the chance to write it in my blog for not only the professor but for classmates as well if they went on my blog. I think that the class discussions should have more in control because the same people just keep talking and go over the class period. I think that this class should be longer than 50min. I loved the walking dead challenge because it was so good and creative. I do see these texts differently for example I read V for Vendetta in high school and I interpreted it differently then I did now but in  a better way. Now I understand it more because we go more in to detail. Even texts that aren't required like Persepolis or watchmen I also read those and they are graphic novels and now thinking and looking back on it, I should have looked at them in a different aspect then I did while I was reading them. What I would tell one of my peers about this course is that truly don't judge a book by it's cover. Meaning I thought this class was going to be boring and not help me or anything. But throughout the course I found myself enjoying it more and more because it's just something different that I'm not used to and it's just a different look at things. For my final project like I thought I was going to be miserable and not wanting to do it but like I found myself having so much fun looking at different views of how female superheros are portrayed. Like talking about my favorite superhero movies and incorporating that into a final project was so fun to me. So this course has really taught me a lot and I am truly happy that my advisor told me about this class because I got a lot out of it.