Final Blog Post

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For my final blog post I decided to revise my second mini project. For my second mini project, I did a photo essay of what HOMAGO looks like. I showed picture examples of what Hanging out, Messing around, and Geeking out looks like with peer-based learning as the central topic. What I did to revise my photo essay was delete all the internet pictures and add my personal pictures. I felt like there was a conflict between the personal photos and the internet photos because there was a difference in the way they were taken. I also revised the sentences that are used in the photo essay; I carefully handcrafted all of the sentences so that they make sense and supported my views on peer-based learning. I changed the beginning and end of my presentation as well; I added photos to the title page and added a work cited page at the end of the presentation. My final revision was a success because I feel that this photo essay now does a great job in advocating peer-based learning. 

Mini Project #3

http://storify.com/jokeiga/peer-based-learning-in-social-media/preview

For my 3^rd mini project, I decided to use storify to show examples of how peer based learning is shown in social media. I wanted to do things differently by focusing on social media instead of defining what peer based learning is. As shown in my story on storify, I’ve provided excellent examples of how peer based learning is assimilated into different types of media. Mimi Ito states in her book “HOMAGO” that the growth of social media in young people’s daily lives is a part of important changes that structure young people’s learning. The way I interpret her statement is that social media has so much of an important role in young people’s lives that most of their learning comes from social media. For example, I could learn a fun fact about a subject just by reading someone’s status on Facebook. I could even learn how to get a 6 pack just by watching a YouTube video made by someone else. There are many ways of how peer learning is incorporated into social media, so many that I would not be able to show all them in one project but I hope you understand some of the examples I’ve shown in my storify. 

HOMAGO

For my second mini project, I decided to take a different approach in presenting my information and create a photo essay. I created a photo essay so that I can personally show pictures of how peer based learning are displayed informally. I used Mimi Itos idea of HOMAGO to divide my photo essay into three separate parts. The first part shows examples of how hanging out is shown, the second part shows examples of how messing around is shown in informal settings, and the third part shoes how geeking out is displayed informally. I hope you enjoy! 

Here is the link!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O7zLhQ8atq13SDapH5tqG9ZC4RO5FkU073049oMQbn4/edit#slide=id.p

Mini Project #1 reflection

My topic is peer-based learning and how it affects our ability to learn.   For the first mini project, I did an infograph. As shown in the picture, my infograph consists of 3 big circles that each represents different aspects to peer based learning.   The first circle is the “you” circle, the second circle is the “friends and popular culture” circle, and the third circle is the “teacher” circle. Each circle has individual factors but also has relationships with each other. The areas where two or more circles overlap are the areas of relationship. For example, the area where the “you” circle overlaps with the “friends/popular culture” shows the relationship between you and your friends.  This piece of work clearly shows how I believe that friends or popular culture has a tremendous influence in learning. Students learn a great deal from explaining their ideas to others and participating in activities in which they can learn from their peers.   I believe that one learns the most information from their peers and other social networks. The idea of interested-based learning is a factor for why the relationship between “you” and “friends” is so strong. Friends usually have the same interest as one another, which is why others learn more efficiently with one another. Tell me what you think about my project.