My artifact for this week is Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is a website famous for its wacky quizzes and funny posts that are usually found being shared on social media sites. On Thursday I was taking a break from studying and was looking at Facebook on my computer. I came across a Buzzfeed article as I usually do, and decided to check it out. About half way through the article, I lightbulb popped up above my head. I realized that this format would be perfect for my website design. Buzzfeed does a great job at creating visual elements intertwined with their text. They like to use gifs, pictures, videos, quizzes, etc to make their audience interested in whatever subject they’re discussing. I immediately closed the Buzzfeed window and went to my website. I rewrote every post so that they would flow with pictures and gifs that I had found on the internet. I still feel uneasy about my site. I think that I may be pushing it on the college audience content, but I think that what I did might pay off big time. I did include a lot of gifs and funny references, but I still think that my message is still there.
Weekly Artifact
One thing that I am going to take away from this week is planning is key. This week alone I have two papers due, three quizzes, and two midterms. I don’t think that I would have mad it this far into the week without the meticulous planning that I do. Every night I make a list of everything that I need to accomplish the next day. On an extremely busy week like this, I even say what times I need to focus on each specific course. Last semester I did not do this and I think that it hurt my grades. I know that I get more done when I can look down and say “I’m right on schedule!”. A little planning never hurt anybody!
Weekly Artifact: Stop Procrastinating!
The most important thing that I can take away from this week is that I need to stay on track. It’s so easy to push away an assignment for what you say will be an hour or two and then end up days later hurrying to finish your work. I know that this is a very real problem for myself. I pushed off writing my annotated bibliographies for a day which turned into two. When it came time for me to start writing them, I was way behind and really confused. The topic that I had picked turned out to be awful and I had to pick a new one at a time when I should be polishing my finished product. Because of my procrastination, I missed the opportunity to pick up extra points which would have been very useful considering the sloppy paper that I turned in a couple of weeks ago. I know that after Spring Break I will not be able to procrastinate because there won’t be any more breaks in our schedule.
Weekly Artifact
The biggest thing that I am going to take away from this week is something that had nothing to do with my classes. For the past two weeks I have been working non-stop. I have spent my hours in the library than in my own room and yet I still seemed to be getting behind in my classes. On Thursdays, I don’t have class until 4 in the afternoon and I get out on Wednesday at 12, so I decided that I was going to take a break from studying to have time to myself. I don’t think that I have done this since the first week back this semester. I know that I can’t do this every week, but I think that I needed time to let my mind rest. When I finally woke up Thursday, I felt like a new person. I think that I was more productive after the day off than I was before.