Congratulations on making it to (almost!) the end of this course! This autumn quarter has been more challenging than others in that our learning has been conducted fully online. To be honest, learning with you all remotely this quarter has made it easier and more rewarding for me as I gained lots of interesting and inspiring ideas from reading your collaborative and individual works as well as our in-class discussions! Your overall performance in this class has far surpassed my expectations and proved to be superior to many of the in-person 134 classes I’ve taught. I’m grateful for getting to know you online (but “face-to-face”) using all the possible means we could gather to make our mutual learning effective and enjoyable. I hope you somehow feel that same way as I do under these special circumstances we are all in resulting from the pandemic. Now, I’d like to know a little more about what you think about this course by having you write a 2-3 page, double-spaced final reflection responding to the questions below:

1. What do you think about the ways our course is conducted, regarding that it’s partially synchronous, implements camera+mic in-class participation, group write-ups on Google Drive, interactive Discussion posts on Canvas, group presentations on collaboratively written genre translation proposals, and small group conferences for peer reviewing individual genre production projects (which will take place this week)? Have these assignments/activities been effective and helpful for your learning how to write creatively, critically, individually and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary and multimodal manner? Can you talk about a couple of assignments/activities that you enjoy most and explain why? Can you also talk about the assignments/activities that don’t work too well for you and explain why?

2. In Sequence 3, you are asked to create your own version as part of our 134 collective efforts to invent the genre of fantasy environment via narrative and cartographic means. What is your overall experience about this multimodal project? Was it challenging, difficult, fun, or confusing? Since the goal of designing such a project is to affirm students that writing can be more than just words and strict prompts. Writing can be a sort of self-expression, creative illustration (and even abstract at times!), and an act of mapping your own unique perspectives on the world/environment around you. I’d like to know how you think your own process of working on Sequence 3 assignments enables you to approach thinking about writing or writing itself differently and what your main takeaway is from the sequence as a writer and a mapmaker.