What I have been working on:
Thank you to my table group for helping me and giving me ideas! Miranda Gomez, Maria Luna, Izamar Diaz, Nakesha Willis!
1. What am I passionate about? What do I want to do?
Something that I have always found very fulfilling and I enjoy doing is helping others, motivating others or making people laugh, and smile. I want to do that for the rest of my life. I know this is will be easy because we are interdependent, and we need each other. I want to tie my passion for helping others with my growing curiosity of how compassion works and how people practice it. I want to remind people of how we live our daily lives wrapped up in our own world that we forget to be kind and compassionate.
2. How can I use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)?
In many ways I use the Internet to communicate and collaborate with others. Through media I was able to add a video to my compassion project. Through the Internet I was able to share my ideas and my peers’ ideas and thoughts on compassion. The blog for this course has allowed me to become comfortable and familiar to the Internet and sharing my ideas and work on it than I ever was before. This semester I plan to collaborate with Miranda Nillo on my project and get more ideas and thoughts from different people, from different ages, and from different places.
3. What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?
By June I will have finished the Compassion Project with input from various age groups, a better understanding of compassion, and a eye-opening video that will make people jump out of their seats and want to practice being compassionate. I am still gathering my thoughts on how I am going to do this, but I am very exited and I can’t wait to get back on the job.
4. What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?
If this video project could actually get people to practice being more compassionate would be wonderful and very impressive. I am not quite sure what else would be impressive. I mean maybe if it could become a commercial or something of that sort.
5. How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?
I honestly have no idea. All I want is for this project to be seen by people and to make a tiny difference in them, to influence compassion, to trigger a feeling of kindness, or to make someone smile. Once I have the final hard copy of the project I will probably put it up on the Social Media like my blog, Facebook, and You Tube.
6. Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?
Everyone that I ask for their opinions and thoughts will be in my learning network. I am learning from everybody. I am learning that compassion means very different things to many different people. I am learning from adults, teenagers, and children, from all ages and all ethnicities. Miranda Nillo and I will be collaborating to make this project happen.
