Learning Outcomes

Regrouping With Learning Outcomes

1.  Learn and Follow BYU-I Learning Model:  This included prepare, teach one another, and ponder and prove and self-directed Learning
Looking back, I am amazed how the seemingly little things we did everyday to prepare for class (blog writing), commenting on one another's blogs and applying comments to our own blogging really helped us fulfill these outcomes.  I helped find sites and blogs for people in class, commented on their writing process, blogged about things they helped me find...  The collaborative way in which we worked in this class really helped us all to fulfill this outcome by working together.

2.  Write Substantially and Publicly about Literature
I don't think it can really be disputed that we did this.  I personally learned how to write about literature online through blogging, getting involved on Goodreads, and doing research about how literature was being portrayed in the media.  Everything I wrote was made public through my blog and Google+.  It was really fun when I got comments from others on what I was writing about.  I think the research paper and the blog posts that helped build to that final paper really helped bring substance to our discussion about literature online.

3.  Develop Research Skills
Before this class, I hadn't even heard of ProjectMuse or JSTOR or Google Scholar or LION..., and I had felt like I had a grasp on how to do research online!  I also used the library guide to find books to help with my paper.  The day we spent in the library working with these databases and the library's subject guides, etc. were really helpful in gaining these research skills.  It was helpful to learn how to narrow down my topic using these tools.  I used the skills I learned through this class to do my research for a project in another class.  It was great!

4.  Perfect Ideas Socially
I definitely would not have been able to write my paper the way I did without the help of my cohort, my professor, and the help I got from people I met online.  I had never written a paper like this before collaboratively.  It was definitely a new and interesting experience that from the very beginning, others were helping to build what I was going to rite about.  It was so useful to use others comments from what I wrote and ideas in forming my topic, building my points, coming up with the direction I wanted to take, etc.  Everything about my paper was influenced by other people, and I think it turned out clearer, more substantial, and more interesting to read.

5.  Gain Digital Literacy
It was only in this class that I learned how digitally literate I was.  I had never heard of Google+; I didn't have a Twitter account; I had never blogged; I hadn't used Diigo or Slideshare or looked up conferences or thought to use YouTube for research purposes or any number of other digital media sites that turned out to be so useful to me in the development of my paper.  All that can really be said of me in regards to digital literacy were that I had a Facebook, cell phone, and Kindle.  Other than that, I was pretty much in the dark.  Diigo became my best friend.  I gained social proof through Google+.  I did research on Google Scholar.  I blogged almost every day.  I created a Twitter account, used TeacherTube, Slideshare, Goodreads, went on LinkedIn, attended a webinar, joined Google Hangouts, the list goes on.  I definitely feel much more confident in the realms of the digital world and feel like I could navigate my way through if I needed to do more research, or just for the fun of it.

6.  Address Changes in Literary Study
This was the core of my paper.  I looked extensively into how literature was being portrayed through digital and other media.  It is definitely not just about the book anymore.  You can't read in isolation (how many times have I said and seen that?)  Literature has entered a social network that links all the various derivatives of a literary work.  We have seen the emergence or eBooks, audiobooks, YouTube montages, reviews through social media sites, Amazon recommendations, etc.  The list goes on and on. Literature is definitely in a different position than it ever has been in before.  I had been so blind to these changes in literature, but now they are so prevalent that I see them everywhere.