Module 7 - Wrapping Up Phase One

A. Most exciting/fun-

The most fun and exciting module for me would be Module 5, where we had to take our own youtube video and analyze it. We had to see what propaganda techniques were implied, and how our brain interpreted this. I really enjoy analyzing stuff that is part of our everyday world, so this was really fun for me, and I got to see some cool videos.

Overall, however, what I enjoyed the most was interacting with others. I loved commenting on others' work, and especially enjoyed responding to feedback. This kind of stuff really stimulates me. The stuff that was the most fun to comment on was DOTCOMers spontaneous posts - pieces that were not assigned as a module. There was a lot of creativity in these.


B. Most Challenging-

This is a hard question! The most challenging thing for me was getting familiar with the blog, so I could make my blog look very polished. I actually had fun poking around the settings, however, and still could learn a lot more! As far as the blogging goes, the hardest thing was just keeping up with all the new posts flying around. This was a good problem, though!


C. Specific Suggestion-

I think a forum on the main DOTCOM blog for people to comment on each module would be a good, way to centralized way to show everyone's comments. This was, in essence, what the Special Guests blog was, and I thought that worked really well. Something like this would also be a good way to connect the participants from different countries as well. I wouldn't change much; I think it ran really well!!


2. Now, for the really fun part...



The excitement of my first track meet coming up this Thursday got me in the mood for this video.... This is one of the funniest videos that I have seen that can only be found on youtube. You have to have followed Bolt during the Olympics to get the jokes, but I think most probably did.....This video pokes fun at Usain "Lightning" Bolt's island party mentality. His fun-loving attitude is contagious, and is perfect for a sport that desperately needs a star. Anyway, this is pretty simple comedy - just hilariously exaggerate "Insane" Usain's antics (although I don't mean "antics" in a negative sense at all). Very fun video!

Looking up the Bolt video reminded me of one of my favorite skis. While we are still on the Olympics theme witness the creative comedic genius of Monty Python.....