My Reflection

Over the past few weeks I have learned that there is more to creativity than just thinking “outside the box.” In this unit I have come to understand that there is a creative process, that creativity can be on a cultural or personal level, and that it takes hard work and dedication to come up with a creative idea. I originally thought that creativity was something that some people had and some people didn't. However I now know that anyone can be creative, you just have to immerse yourself in your domain and you need to be willing to work hard.

For my creative domain I chose to research the domain of blogging. I would say that the most fun part about researching blogging was learning about the origin of blogging and learning about the bloggers that have had an influence on the domain. I particularly took pleasure in researching specific bloggers because I was able to read some of their blogs and learn about their blogging styles. I also really enjoyed creating my own personal blog because it gave me the opportunity to do something that I want to do in the future. I liked finding something on the internet, researching it and then writing about it because conducting research is something that I find fun. However, it was difficult to decide what I was going to do my blog on because I wanted to do something that I found interesting, but also something that I thought other people would like as well. On that note I would probably choose a topic that was more interesting to blog about than snowy owls because that is something that not everyone enjoys.

One of the main reasons that I chose to research the domain of blogging is because I follow many blogs and in the future I hope to have a successful blog. As journalism major I think that blogs are a very important aspect of giving out information to the public, and therefore I would say this field is important to my future. I think that it was important for me to gain a better understanding of blogging because it will help in the future to know what blogs consist of and how they are constructed.

For my imitative work and my creative work I did two blogs that were very similar to each other, but with some very important differences.  Both of them were blogs that I created by conducting research on the internet.  However, in the first blog I only found a video on YouTube and gave my opinion on it. On my second blog I chose to blog about snowy owls, but for this assignment I decided make my blog credible, because credibility is a major issue in the domain of blogging. In order to make it more credible I had to do a lot of research to find credible sources, which was different from my imitative work because it didn't take much research to complete. During both of these blogs I found myself experiencing flow when I was doing research and when I was writing the blog. I realized that time sped up for me because it seemed like I had only been researching or writing for a short period of time, but I had really been working for hours.

Overall I thought that the best part of this unit was reading about and learning about my classmates creative domains. In particular I admired the artwork done by Andrew Pouppirt and the song made by Dre. I found both of their original works to be well original. It seemed liked they put a lot of hard work and thought into their projects and they were fun to learn about their creative process when it came to creating their masterpieces.