Reflection on Multigenre Autiobiography

I have been thinking back to all of the presentations that we looked at last Monday during our class, and those that we will be seeing tomorrow morning. I thought about how I put mine together, and the preparation that others used for theirs as well. I think activities like this strive for us to think about our lives from the outside looking in. We all can dwell on our past, but it was different to put it on display for everyone else. I did enjoy the fact that there were multiple sites that we could use to enhance our ability to create these projects. It was necessary for me to rely on something else, because I wasn't able to access PowerPoint on my computer. Yet, looking at all of those other sites also allowed me to think of ways to incorporate those things into my classroom. Things such as mixbook could be used for group projects to show each step of the way that the group took before they reached their conclusion. Thinking about the future also made me really take a look at everyone else's projects. Yes, a lot of our information was similar to each others, yet there were also categories where they were extremely different as well. I think this is important to look at because these were the stages that we went through in our lives, just as our students will be going through as well. We need to be aware that not any two students are going to be the same, that their "Multigenre Autobiographies" are different from the person sitting next to them. I think that too often teachers imply that children are either going through the same things that they went through when they were younger, or that they are all going through the same childhood experiences. I hope that a project like this could be used to get students to think about themselves and all the ways that things have impacted their lives. Viewing each student's would be a great way to break the ice and delve into their perspectives in the beginning of the semester.