JUNK
In the second half of the semester we talked quite a bit about junking, upcycling and various forms of recycling. We discussed via blogs and in class discussions on how to re-purpose items that you may consider as useless and garbage into something else that can be useful. My junk project was taking an old piece of ribbon, some beads off a necklace that broke and a random dragonfly charm that I found and making them into a reusable bookmark. Spending that time in class discussing recycling and junking along with our junk projects really got me thinking on ways I could recycle. It also helped just seeing what everyone else in class was re-purposing to give me ideas.
I really enjoyed the whole step by step process that we used in the advocacy project. Although I wasn't aware at the start that the topic we picked for the first blog post was going to be the one we had to use for the whole advocacy project otherwise I probably would have picked something else. This experience did teach me a lot though. Just thinking about it now, all the steps involved in advocating for something, not to mention just being aware of all the people involved.
The Share and Voice postings were fun in my opinion. This gave me the opportunity to talk about what I was interested in. Not only did this give me more freedom to do what I wanted but while searching for subjects to post on I ended up learning a lot which was really neat. I would have to say that my favorite post in Share and Voice is my most recent one on the coral sea marine plan in Australia.
The photo essay was a fun project to work on. Digging around at my parent's home I was able to find numerous items that had been re-purposed. I thought that this was a great way to get us thinking about recycling, junking and re-purposing items. I enjoy these types of assignments better than just writing about them. It got me actually thinking about it more and putting more of an effort into it
Conclusion
The semester as a whole went by fast, especially for this class. I can honestly say that I have taken a lot out of this class. All of the topics that we talked about in class were all practical and got me thinking about my impact on the environment. Overall, I really enjoyed this class.
Wow Sam I really like your juking project! The whole stages of the junking project seemed to go well for you, as did the whole class, and I am really glad that you enjoyed it! :)
ReplyDeleteThis blog post is organized nicely and I really like that you touched on numerous topics that we worked on during the second half of class. Keep learning even after class is over!
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