Reflection: Weeks 9 and 10

Week 9

During week 9 we started our Advocacy projects briefly. We learned what advocacy is, what some of the misconceptions are about them, and started thinking about things we might feel passionate enough about to advocate for. During week 9 we also started heavily learning about our photo essay eye opener! We learned about some serious ethics of picture taking and learned some tricks on how to get a great shot! I had never realized the different kinds of consent needed when taking pictures of people, so that was great to learn about! During week 9 we also did our first advocacy post which included finding our local political representatives contact information which was very informative and useful.
Week 10

While Dr. V was away at AAHPERD for the week, we just had some blogging to do. Our main project this week was actually doing our photo essay. I found this to be very challenging to think of something to do my essay on at first, but once I figured out a topic I enjoyed researching it!


I really learned a lot of new information in these past 2 weeks. I have learned a lot about blogging in the fact that I am now an expert picture putter inner, (although it may not look that way from my photo essay) No, for serious, it's a lot harder than I expected to put in that many pictures and make your blog look decent! Maybe I'm just bad at layouts in general, but I struggled! I learned a ton about the environment and what flooding does to it, through doing my photo essay! Something that I learned about myself these past two weeks, is that this is the only class that I don't procrastinate in! I have actually turned to putting blogging before any other schoolwork :) (other than methods of course!) I think this is because the environemnt is something that I care about, and I enjoy learning about and want to learn as much as I can because I have never taken a class in it before!

Well, Everyone have a great and safe weekend!