#summativereflection10b

Most of the time my classmates argue their unchanged opinion in class and in tumblr. I've noticed that the class discussions alter some of my classmates' opinions and so their tumblr post might be different. Also, the tumblr post could have more evidence and will back up the original idea since you have time to think about it and come up with a great response. The point seems more valid in tumblr posts. I don't like that not everyone contributes to the group effort when working in groups but I like having to work with others who are helpful and together we come up with a great idea. I think I could improve my work by not wasting time and talking about things off topic. I liked about my group that everyone contributed and we have fun rehearsing and recording the play.

In class some girls are shy to share their ideas and opinions among the class so they share it through tumblr. What i like about working together is that the people I'm working with can't be shy with me and their information help me build my ideas better. I don't like working in groups with my classmates because not all of my team mates share their ideas, they don't participate.  If we had to accomplish a goal, we should plan before anything else. i made sure that i was prepared and i tried to discuss my opinions and ideas.

In discussions you hear opinions, different opinions. Some which you've never heard before. I always have an opinion. In fact part of which makes me me is that I'm opinionated. I have something to say about most topic most of the time. I love hearing what others have to say, too. Discussions usually shape my opinions. One changed opinion of mine is how Justice is not equality. I love the picture posted and reposted by many students that shows three people of different heights trying to see a baseball game over the fence. Each person stands on one box since it's only fair, but it's not equal because why should the tall person stand on a box when he can see without it. In that same picture there is a comparison of what equality means. It shows the tall person standing on the ground while the shortest of the three stand on two boxes to be able to see. I thought being just is being equal, but it's not the same. Equality and justice are not directly proportional. You can always be just but not be equal and vice versa. I've participated in many collaborative discussions in class and in tumblr. I've expressed by ideas persuasively and managed to get people to agree with my opinion. For example, when I talked to my class about how typing in shortcuts while using social media has corroded many people's English almost everyone agreed with me. Yet, in other discussion I argued that social media doesn't have negative impacts. Social media doesn't talk to itself and says "well today I'm going to hack her account." It is used as a weapon. People with their own free will choose to post ideas, write their opinions, hack others account or even choose to give their passwords to those they don't completely trust. I stood alone with that opinion, yet I managed to make Mahra and Meera agree with me. I've clarified my opinions when I need too by using bold and italics, which is something I cannot do on paper. Also, autocorrect helps me understand my sentences better and helps clarify them. Using tumblr and technology makes the process dynamic for me, because I'm able to hear everyone's different opinions and ideas. I get to hear from people who never speak up in class and that's really awesome since some classmates have some great things to say. My posts at first weren't that great, but then I understood the purpose and idea and started writing better. I'm really proud of what I wrote since I gave my best efforts and I wrote what I believed in.

The idea of justice changed over the course of this unit. I honestly thought justice meant equality, being equal. But over the discussion we had in class and the information my classmates shared, justice now means to me moral rightness and to be fair. Its giving people what they deserve, fairness. I participated with my classmates when we were put into groups, we shared our ideas among each other. I managed to express my own ideas on tumblr, i write what i know and what i have learned from my classmates. Getting our laptops to class and reading other classmates post has helped me improved my ability to write clearly on tumblr. To me using technology is easier to produce writing tasks because its faster,  i can google things i don't understand quickly and its way more fun than writing on a piece of paper. What i think i did really well was my thoughts that i shared on tumblr. I should write longer post on tumblr to improve my work.

I think reading my classmates ideas on tumblr is better than reading them in class because they give their opinion and express their ideas on tumblr more than if they just read it out loud in class.I like working together in class because you can talk and discuss your ideas more face to face that on tumblr one of my favourites was when we got to bring 5 questions or pictures and discuss them with our group because each one of them had a different opinion which started a conversation.One thing that i don't like about working with our classmates is when one or two members of the group don't want to do any work and you have to end up doing all the work to get good marks.I think accomplishing goals in groups is that you have to plan before and be ready for any question in class. While completing group work i think i did well in giving my ideas and opinions and sharing different perspectives, 

My ideas have changed a lot during the time we used tumblr like one of them is social media , because before we started using it for  school i thought it was all about interacting with people and playing games but then i noticed it is also about education and sharing your thoughts and ideas. I have participated in a way that all my classmates can discuss the topic and we can share our ideas. An example of that is when i don't really understand what I'm supposed to do i could just look up the hashtag and get an idea of that topic. Tumblr has helped me In writing cause i prefer typing the words and not writing then down on paper first because it is easier and my hands don't hurt secondly it is the spelling mistakes if i wrote a word wrong by accident it corrects itself. I think using technology makes the whole process dynamic because its is on the internet and you cannot lose it or undo it and that you can post it when your at home before the dead line. One thing i did well is i tried to improve my writing skills . Something that i would like to have improved is posting posts on time and adding more to some of my posts.