It’s the end of the semester. The final studio of ecologies of noticing. I have, to my surprise considering how confused and flustered i was at the beginning, enjoyed this course. I have found not only the content to be incredibly interesting, but I was opened to a whole new window of ideas, creations and theories in which I haven’t been exposed to before.

My whole interpretation of life itself has broadened, and I am now finding myself noticing things in everyday life that I would have completely ignored and wouldn’t have taken any interesting in prior to the course.

Although I only just felt confident in the content and why we were looking into such confusing and heterogeneous theories and ideas more towards the end of the course, I am now still able to reflect back on previous learning activities and put them into the whole perspective of the course.

My overall participation has been good. I have been able to realise what I’m continuing to do well in the course, and then am aware of what areas need improving. While the readings, in particular the Bogost’s, were our predominate source of learning and our main point of focus, my participation was great. I was engaged with the content and looking for ways to expand my understanding of it in terms of the course as a whole, and I was able to question what I was doing well and could be improving on. I was writing questions and annotating the reading well, however I could have improved on making sure I remained focused for the rest of the semester, each week being equally engaged.

Reading 20 pages of the reading each week was one of my initial goals in which I believe I did well.

I was able to stick to my goal in completing at least 6 blog posts a week which I am proud of. They vary in terms of content, length and my overall passion for that particular content (sometimes I was vague and brief in the discussion, and other times I put in a lot of real thought and effort).

Unfortunately, I had a lot of work that clashed with class so I wasn’t always able to attend, but when I did attend I was switched on and ready to learn and participate.

Overall, the grade for participation I give myself is 75% in terms of engagement, class attendance, readings, blog posts.