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I am a freshman in high school this year, and I came from a Korean public school, where English was treated something like a dog-food. It was no wonder that I was afraid to write about my opinions, because I knew I’d have many flaws that I fail to detect. So, naturally, I developed this sense, so that I give a deep, depressing sigh when I am put to a writing moment. I thought this sensation would last for way longer than I expected, but soon, as a student going through the PLN program, I found out that writing is freaking fun, and that writing about what you really like is what makes it fun. Unlike other classes or occasions when I have to write, I was given an opportunity to actually become a writer, a real writer, for the 77 minutes that I had in C block, and during my own blogging time. As a writer, PLN was more than a mere class but a huge device that I desperately needed, which ended up discovering my potentials. Now that I have had my chance to find more about myself, I will be using this momentum to keep going further, until I become a ‘real-world-writer.’

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LN had made me into a deeper thinker in general. What I mean by a deeper thinker is that I have become more mature in terms of thinking, and such change had made my writings look better compared to the ones in the past, and I have actually become a more efficient problem-solver. PLN was never an easy-A course, and it required the students to take full responsibility and maturity. Writings needed to be in a form that is appropriate to the audience out in the world, therefore I spent more time than any other writings, when I was typing for my blog.

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PLN was also being a guideline of how I should produce quality work. Mistakes were fine, because that is the source of all the good experience and education, but such thing did not make laziness tolerable. Once, I was thinking and dragging too much with my project, and I was inflicted with a low grade which now, I think I deserved. That had taught me a valuable lesson that if the production rate is significantly low, no matter how high-quality my other works are, people would not be interested, and will abandon my idea easily. Laziness is never accepted in the pro-world. In the end, I grew up, and kept on producing whatever I needed to produce at an acceptable rate. After all, I wanted attention, and I needed to prove myself that I deserve such thing.

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Lastly, as PLN – personal learning network – is self-explanatory in the sense of being a guideline, I was introduced to the whole new world of socializing and networking. Before I even knew PLN existed, I thought just talking and chatting to my friends was good enough to be considered ‘networking’. However, now that I saw how world-wide network was running, I was dazzled, and was excited to try so.

Unfortunately though, seeing from what I have done, I didn’t really succeed in becoming a good, world-wide networker. I had a habit where I was lazy to do stuffs that I didn’t usually do. So I did use Twitter - Mr.Burell’s probable favorite networking application – but I never used it as I used MSN and Skype with my friends. That is the conclusion, but is never the end of the story. Just like how I learn from my own mistakes, I did the same thing for this particular event, and I will, not may, develop as a young networker, and hope to be recognized, linked, and running.

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Now that I finished writing about such a special program that I faced for one full semester, my head nods automatically in agreement that PLN was the course that had influenced me in the most ways. I thank Mr.Burell and myself for giving me a chance to experience this sheer brilliance, and I will never make all the times I spent here a waste, but will develop this into something that will shine in the future.

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