Blogging the Journey from Student to Teacher

  Reflecting on the Journey Thus Far           In reflecting on my experience of blogging throughout this semester, it has been a very rewarding journey of entering the world of blogging. Just a few months ago at the beginning of the semester, the world of blogging seemed lightyears away and I could not imagine myself a part of it. However, when I began setting up my blog in one of the first class sessions, I started to see the possibilities that blog spaces provided for new modes of communication. With each week that passed, I became more comfortable speaking about the content of Currins 547 through my blog and playing with what my voice could be whilst "Blogging the Journey from Student to Teacher."  In this final blog post, I will look back on the posts I've made for Currins 547 and determine the best of the best for different categories of my blog.          1.  Professionalism: Reflecting on Young Writers and My Experiences as a Writing Coach When I think about profes

View my Book Trailer Here!        For my multimodal response to Everywhere Blue , I chose to create a book trailer. As I mentioned in my last blog post, I wanted to create something with an audio and visual component because the middle grade book really highlighted those aspects. The music in my book trailer is actually a song that is mentioned in Everywhere Blue , which is titled Adagio for Strings . This song is used to describe the "feeling" of part two of the novel, which is right after Strum disappears. I think the tense feeling in this song adds a lot to the book trailer as a whole in order to create suspense. Working with what is outlined in the book in this way has greatly deepened my respect for how the book sets the scene of the eco narrative. Furthermore, my understanding of the novel deepened when I was selecting images for the book trailer. The image that was most hard for me to find was one that demonstrates the conflicts between Aria and Maddie at the beginning