8-1 Peer Review Discussion: Sharing Your Presentationand Looking Ahead

Post your final project presentation to this discussion topic, and in your initial post, address the following:

What do you feel is most successful about your final presentation?
Briefly describe the challenges you encountered in creating your final presentation. These could be issues with PowerPoint or the other applications used to build your presentation, issues analyzing your media artifact and making recommendations to change it, or even issues in identifying/breaking down the tools and technology used to create the artifact.
A consideration of the tools and technology regarding social media (for improving effectiveness in conveying messages) was an important aspect of the course. How do you think you will use social media going forward as it relates to your future studies or a potential future career in media/communications?
How will you use the concepts presented in this course in your future career?
In responding to at least one of your peers, choose a project that has not received feedback yet, and provide your classmate with comments that primarily identify and discuss the strengths of their presentation. Are there any similarities or differences in their presentationor in their initial discussion postto your own presentation or initial discussion post? Offer support and/or advice regarding their future goals.

Classmate
What do you feel is most successful about your final presentation?
I completed the project despite coming down with pneumonia. Having connected the Adidas sneakers in the photo to lyrics from an old Run DMC song gave me my focus and I stuck with the idea about delivering good news, so follow through was my only real success.

Briefly describe the challenges you encountered in creating your final presentation.
The final slide was a challenge for me. My mind went blank on how to create a visual representation of my thought process.  I am not sure I succeeded in transforming my thoughts into an artifact that makes sense to anyone other than myself.

Briefly describe the challenges you encountered in creating your final presentation
My PowerPoint template was corrupted somehow since the last class I used it for, and I had several technical glitches.

How do you think you will use social media going forward as it relates to your future studies or a potential future career in media/communications?
A few years back I won a small cash prize for a novel I wrote and met with an agent from New York who refused to represent me because I am not active enough on social media. I do not like to document my every thought, pandering towards an audience. I am a boring individual., which makes me chuckle, because I am never ever bored. To try to become popular just to jump start a career feels artificial. I write because I must and if I continue only selling three to four stories a year, I will use my day job to cover the spread with bills.  Luckily, my husband is an engineer who earns a decent income, and our kids are grown. Show, dont tell, is the advice creative writers are given about writing and it is hard for me  to constantly tell the world what I am up to.

How will you use the concepts presented in this course in your future career?
Paying close attention to my own bias I will try to refrain from actively persuading others to agree with me. My attitudes and preferences hardly matter in the grand scheme of things. My point of view has been formed through a lifetime of experiences, but my viewpoint is mine alone, and I do not want to push any sort of agenda on others. I will be using my critical thinking skills to review novels for a living as well as writing some lifestyle pieces. I will get paid to share my opinion, so not leaning into bias requires a lot of objective thinking. 21 years after I walked away from a newspaper job because they refused to write about the unfair treatment of a black man, I find myself in a world that looks eerily familiar. Black men still get beat down (or killed) by authority figures simply for living in the skin they are in, and that upsets me. A trick of genetics allowed me to roam through life without harassment (about my skin tone at least, I could fill volumes with #metoo stories, but they bore me, so how could I expect anyone else to care)  but because my mom and stepdad are brown, I have witnessed firsthand there are separate Americas. When we went to the country club for my mom to get her teacher of the year award when I was 13, she was instructed where the cleaning staff should report, even though she wore a suit and her picture was in the lobby as the guest of honor that night. The major thing that has changed is now there is a camera in smart phones to documents truths so many were blind to before. Once, I gave up on being a cog in the media machine, but I think the world is more receptive to certain stories than they once were, and I look forward to spinning my gears, and adding input.