3 days of class presentations and we're still not done! Everyone is doing such a nice job with their twitterives and I'm really impressed! Today we had five presentations and they all went really well.

First up was Sam C. her twitterive was about her family and her family room. I definitely think she has a great idea and lots of info for her twitterive, but she's just a little lost. Some people in our class suggested that she uses more organization in her twitterive and instead of writing the messages out, she could re-create the facebook messages between her brother and her. I also think that she should include more about her mom and other siblings. As a suggestion, I said to possibly sit down and jot some feelings down about each person or situation within her twitterive and she could create a wordle or a found poem out of those feelings.

Next was Alexa. her twitterive was about her search for finding the perfect home. She starts her twitterive off with a journal entry from when she was little about how often she moved and how she felt about it. I think she should include more about journal entries throughout this whole twitterive and this could possibly be her repetend. It was also suggested that she reorganize the conversations with her mom and fiance about the different houses.
Sam O's twitterive was excellent. Our professor complimented her many times and I think our whole class was really impressed. Her twitterive was about her Grandpa's life and how unfortunate it was that she never got to meet him. Sam included so much about her grandpa's life and how great of a man he was. I loved that at the end she tied in her life with her grandpa's life by setting a picture of each of them with words that describe both of them. 

Last was Michael. His place was a sort of distance or loss. He said that he thought he was crazy but I totally got what he was going for. The non fiction piece that he read to our class before presenting his twitterive was excellent. I loved the two videos that he created on Youtube. He has one where he was singing and he included his mess-ups because he wanted us to get the imperfections. I loved that. He also added a video of a collaboration of voicemails and radio-talk. It was great and really gave us the feeling of distance. 
 
Todays presentations went really well. Some of them really touched me and had a great effect on me. I was surprised by how many people opened up to our class and put their story out there.
Steph: Steph, Great Job! I loved how you set up your twitterive. It was very organized with different pages and I liked how you stuck with the theme of dance for each title. I got chocked up a little bit when you started talking about how dance is your way of dealing with tourettes. I could relate with you somewhat because softball is my place of comfort and I feel at home when I'm on the field. I think your video had a great effect to show how much it truly means to you.
Darren: Darren's Twitterive took a different approach and I really enjoyed it. His twitterive wasnt necessarily about a place, but it was a dream. It was about a dream of becoming younger again. I loved how you had one of your students walk around with your Flip so we could see the world from a child's perspective. Good job!
David: David's Twitterive. Wow. Where do I begin? This Twitterive really touched me. I teared up multiple times throughout this presentation. David spoke about his journey of overcoming cancer. He was diagnosed his senior year of high school. The facts with the prezi were really interesting and I loved how he kept the humor throughout his entire Twitterive. It kept it somewhat light hearted and really showed us his personality. One suggestion I really agreed with was to include more about his parents and what they had to go through throughout this process. Great Job!
Katie: Katie's Twitterive is about her relationship with her father, or lack of relationship. I really liked the multiple modes that you used to tell your story. I liked the end quote that said, next stop, forgiveness. I think you should stick with the theme of the road or journey. I think you should talk more about your family members and your siblings. I also suggested in class that you should maybe include what you thought your dad's "sickness" was as a child. Great job though! Definitely on the right track!
 
Technology has had a great impact on my writing this semester! When constructing my Twitterive, there have been many useful technologies that helped me make my story. The most technology has been the screenshot. I never knew how to do a screenshot before, but I always saw other people posting bits of pictures or facebook comments. Finally, I decided to do a little research and I figured out how to do one! Thank god I did because most of my Twitterive is made up of screenshots of quotes and pictures!

I decided to construct a list of the many different technologies that have helped me create my Twitterive:


Twitter
Weebly
YouTube
Screenshots
Slideshow
Pictures
Wordle
Word

Without all of these technologies, my Twitterive would be very boring and I wouldn't be able to make my story as colorful and detailed!
 
Today I got to present my rough draft of my twitterive today! I was so excited for everybody to see it and hear the feedback from my peers. I want to thank all of them for their great ideas and for sharing their suggestions with me. 
Some of the suggestions the class had given me were:

1. To add dialogue between my coach and I.
2. Rethink the song "I'll be missing you"
3. Personify softball and give it a voice
4. The "everything happens for a reason might not work"
5. Possibly add the dream to the beginning so the audience knows I am longing for it
6. Loss is my place
7. Relate it more to college softball
8. Make a line up card to go along with the journal entry where my name got crossed off.
9. Poem/piece about how it feels to miss softball
10. possibly end it by saying "I'm on deck for whatever life throws at me"

I am so happy that I got a chance to present today so I could get a jump start on revising and making my Twitterive the best it could be!
 

In class, Professor Mangini had us split up into groups. He put some questions on the board and our group members were to ask us about our own twitterive and they recorded our answers for us. I'm not sure if we got through all of the questions, but here's what I have in my notebook!
1. Who are my characters? Myself, softball, and my coach?
2. What genres did I use? Journal entries, screenshots, definitions, slide shows, wordle, pictures, quotes, youtube video, micro-fiction, definitions, note, song lyrics
3. What is my place? Softball?/Love of the game?/Lost?
4. What is my connection/disconnection to my place? My connection is the hours and days I spent playing softball. My lack of connection to my place is not playing anymore.
 
My twitterive is coming along very nicely and I'm really happy about it! :)

I have added some new genres to my piece after my discussion with my group on Thursday. I added a letter from me to my main character "softball", I added a list of things to do to get over a "break up", I added a few more screen shots and I also added some lyrics. I'm really looking forward to showing my twitterive off to the class on Tuesday! Maybe they'll have some more suggestions for me!
 
One of our main assignments for Writing, Research, and Technology is a twitterive. It is a narrative based on tweets. I thought this project would be cool but, wow! I never knew how much fun this project would be! Creating and thinking of different genres is challenging, interesting and fun. I have a rough draft of my twitterive posted under my assignments. I came up with five questions to ask my peers in order to better my work and come up with new ideas!

1. What genres should I add?
2. What do you think my place actually is?
3. Does the order make sense?
4. Should I break up the daily journal entries?
5. Do I need to include more about my past softball experiences or do you think I should stick to my college career?

 
Like I said before I was making an invitation for the wedding! Here it is!
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Our writing, research, and technology class is having a mock-wedding tomorrow! We were each assigned a role to make this wedding happen. I was chosen as the distracted wedding invitation designer. My professor and I both decided that to make it funny, I should make the invitation really crazy and noisy. I wasn't exactly sure how to make a wedding invitation, so I browsed online to find the correct formats and terminology. I am working on the finishing touches of the invitation and I will post it as soon as its complete!
 
perfect day 
absolutely amazing
epic
unconditional love
never understand
craziest  ever
peaceful and calm
fun, beautiful life
the littlest things make me happy
stars were out tonight
if god loved us he would make every day like today