Sherwood,+Erika

I'm Erika, I'm a sophomore and I'm majoring in Spanish and minoring in English. I'm a thrower and a jumper for the Scots and I play volleyball, as well as being an Alpha Xi Delta sister. I'm 20 years old and really have no idea what to do with the rest of my life. I do know three things that are life choices: I don't eat meat, music can heal almost any wound, and that I will always bleed maroon.





Journal/Reflection for 2/11/08 I started out this unit thinking that it was going to be rather simple to complete the certain tasks that were set before myself and my partner. However, upon beginning our research we both quickly noted that data collecting and comparing was going to be rather difficult, even though our subject was something very important to us. Finding people that had the time to be interviewed was so difficult and then if they did have the time, convincing them to let us interview them was just as difficult, I think partly because there is such a negative connotation to Greek life. I also thought that I had a large amount of information about our topic already, but upon further researching I found that there was even more data out there that we could use, and also that I was so naive about some of the organizations. When writing my first draft of my paper, I was still shaky on the ideas of the CRAP principles, so I essentially left them out of the paper completely. I focused my paper on the heading photos of two different Greek organizations and tried to find to of the most different groups so I could show a greater contrast. While writing the paper I found it simple to compare the two because they had some many contrasting features, although I would have liked to compare entire webpages because there was even more to compare there. After writing the paper I found it very ironic, how closely connected the pictures and webpages are to the actual people in the groups. I couldn't believe the similarities just visible in a small picture, and when compared to the pages as a whole the similarities were uncanny. However, when creating my powerpoint, I felt a better understanding for CRAP and was more comfortable with my images as well. I still would have liked to know how to embed a copy of the webpages into my slides, but I was the one at fault for not asking. I also felt that when using powerpoint I could easier express myself, most likely because I was just outlining my ideas and could speak whatever I wanted to without having a definite order of events. I think that the slideshow was more welcomed by my audience as well because it was easier to pay attention to and to follow along with. The background for my slide was simple, to keep the focus on the information, with "members" from all the Greek organizations holding hands at the top to show that Greek life connects you to more than just your one Greek family, it connects you to the entire Greek campus. ,