{"id":981,"date":"2020-05-09T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=981"},"modified":"2020-05-09T01:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:03:40","slug":"reflective-blog-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/05\/09\/reflective-blog-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflective Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I read <\/span>my posts<\/span><\/a> from the semester, I was pleased to see how much I\u2019ve learned. As we learned different terms and themes in class, I tried my best to apply that to my blog posts. Most of all, this class taught me to look at literature in a different lens and introduced me to a new genre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of my posts related the day\u2019s reading back to our CYOA project. For example, in my <\/span>second post<\/span><\/a> I argued that CYOA books were complex interactive fiction. I explained the similarities I saw between the CYOA books and the characteristics of interactive fiction. In my <\/span>third post, <\/span><\/a>I compared digital poetics to CYOA books and the various limitations that each genre had. Lastly, in my <\/span>fourth post, <\/span><\/a>I compared the quick decisions made in <\/span>Bury Me My Love<\/span><\/i> to the decisions made in CYOA books. Mapping my CYOA book at the beginning of the semester really helped me understand the significance of structure in storytelling and was a great basis to keep referring to throughout the semester. Not only that, understanding CYOA books was a great introduction to the rest of the course’s themes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also noticed how I always tried to incorporate my own experience with the work in my blog post. After learning about interactivity and the affordances of it within electronic literature, I was hyperaware of the various ways I was engaging with the work. By explaining my own experience with the works, I was able to point out details that I thought were integral to the game. This is seen in my <\/span>fourth post<\/span><\/a> about <\/span>Her Story <\/span><\/i>and how my experience playing this game informed the players role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I compare my last blog post to my first blog post, it is clear how I\u2019ve applied the themes of our course as the semester has progressed. My <\/span>first post <\/span><\/a>was a simple summary of the day\u2019s assigned works whereas my last post was a combination of topics, themes and vocabulary from class. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I read my posts from the semester, I was pleased to see how much I\u2019ve learned. As we learned different terms and themes in class, I tried my best to apply that to my blog posts. Most of all, this class taught me to look at literature in a different lens and introduced me …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-b","category-reflective-post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}