Strangely, the digital citizenship assignment gave me the most difficulty. I say ‘strangely’ because I had explored this topic somewhat in collection 1. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t know exactly where to take it from there. Instead of building upon what I had done, I tried to recreate everything. I did not allow myself to look at how my classmates handled the assignment until it was long overdue and I was stumped with sort of a writing block on it. Meanwhile I became engrossed in the required readings for the collection and felt like I’d gotten ahead of the topic and was tripping over my feet.
Writing is a laborious process for me. I had been told in the past not to worry so much about good writing, just to write and write all I can because eventually the good writing would come out. I wonder if that will happen by the end of this course (the good writing, I mean). I won’t hold my breath.
I think Chris required the digital citizenship assignment because we needed to try to figure out some direction for ourselves in this class. As far as advice for a future student, I really don’t have any for them. If I could figure out how to unblock that writing, I’d share it. I’ve lost count of my edits on it and have left it sit for 10 days now so don’t even know where I’ve left off. It’s my last item for collection 2 and my goal was to complete it over a week ago. Since it’s almost tomorrow, tomorrow will be my new goal for completion. Wish me success.
