Aims and objectives: This week I wanted to learn how to do a podcast and figure out what my 5th genre would be. I also wanted to revise my first few genres, adding sources to each. Then I wanted to learn what reproduction literacy was, and discuss my mailing list that I joined. I wanted to get all of my assignments done thoroughly and on time.
Declarative Knowledge: This week I learned what a podcast is and how to make a podcast using gcast.com. I also learned what reproduction literacy is. I learned that reproduction literacy involves finding and using information, and then recreating it to express your own thoughts and ideas. This week I learned more about my mailing list/online community I have been observing since the beginning of the semester. I had not really thought of it as a community until this assignment.
Procedural Knowledge: I first had to decide what my 5th genre for my MRP would be. I looked at the list of genres I made and saw which ones remained that I have not yet completed. I decided to do the Interview Transcript so I referred to our Resource Manual for CD 424 to see the outline of an interview. Next I saved and published the genre as a page on my weblog and then sent the link to the class list. After this I conducted my peer reviews on Alyssa and Abby’s 4th genres. I used the comment feature on both of their pages, and remarked on the voice of the piece, the intended audience of the piece, what I thought the author was saying in the piece, something specific to “bless,” and something specific that they may want to address. I did this on both of their weblogs and then saved the comment. In order to find out about reproduction literacy I first conducted a search. Next I reflected about my online community I have been observing. I used the post feature and commented on the people in the community, its purpose, whether it fulfills its purpose, and additional thoughts of mine about the community. I then saved it and published it to my weblog.
Conditional Knowledge: Doing an interview transcript will help give me practice for what types of questions to intially ask clients/caregivers. Knowing how to do a peer response is both beneficial to me and my groupmates. Having someone else’s perspective on your work helps you look at it from a different point of view. It also helps me keep in mind these things when I am creating my genres. Learning about reproduction literacy continues our education about becoming literate in a digital society. We have learned about many different types of literacies this semester. The mailing list has been a lot more beneficial than I orginally thought it would be. I had never had any experience with any type of mailing list so I was not sure what it entailed. After observing one for a while, I have learned many different things and will continue to look for different mailing lists concerning different interests/subjects. I can use the mailing list both for educational and personal interests in the future.
