Essay

Have I done any good in the world today? or even this week? These are questions I should ask myself more. Sometimes I think that I become too caught up in my own problems and difficulties to even stop and consider that someone could have it worse. Instead of feeling bad for myself I should help others because I have the ability to improve someone's situation rather than throw myself a pity party because my wi-fi sucks or I didn't get the present I wanted. When I reflect on my actions this week or even today, there were instances were I could have helped someone or done some good in the world but I chose not to or I was honestly to oblivious to recognize that someone needed help because quite honestly after reflecting on myself I'm selfish. I'm also always looking to criticize someone else or others rather than self evaluating myself and asses how I can get better and take action to reach the goal that is necessary. Take my house chores for example. I feel like sometimes I do the majority of the work, whether that is true or not I do not know, but I always am so concerned and worried about what others ARE NOT doing rather than just doing the dishes or other chores because they need to get done and someone has to do them. I have to improve myself rather the knocking others down because I believe that I'm slightly better than them. They need to recognize what they should do and they need to find the good in themselves.

I can improve what I don in e-Comm as well. I think that my first error this week was joining in on the class when they were bashing SIDs and the Raven Roundup. I think that instead of focusing on how we as Convergence Journalism can become better than the other strands we should focus on how we as e-Communication can become the best program in the Olathe District and then become the best nation or country that has the best production of news. I think that moving forward in this class I will try to be a lot nicer to my peers and my teacher because they all deserve respect because they have not given me a reason to not give them my respect.

Not Good

I was quick to judge the role of a producer and was hesitant to give this job a try and I sort of threw a tantrum because I was scared to mess up.

Good

I quickly last minute put together b-roll for the World News segment although it was poorly executed I got it done.

Better

I attempted a new role/job and although I don't believe that I was the best producer I still gave it try and did the best I could as a newbie.

Best

I don't believe that I did anything worthy of best. Next week however I want to achieve something in all the levels so that I can continue to grow in the weeks to come.

I believe that after reflecting on this week I have learned that I have a lot of improving to due to become the person I want to be in the future. I think that our class should be more respectful of our teachers. I think that some people in e-Comm do not have the motivation to do hard work and they just wanted an easy class. I will continue to improve myself in the weeks to come.