Metacognition: MashUp

     
     When I think of a mashup, I think of a collage.  To me, mashup means a lot of things randomly put together.  I never knew there was a way of doing this other than in a collage.  This assignment introduced me to a new way of doing this.   The assignment was so new to me that I did not understand how I was suppose to construct this mashup.
     Picking out the theme was pretty easy for me.  I knew the assignment required five reflections from the in class responses.  I also remember writing a lot about solitude in my reflections.  The concept of solitude also really intrigues me because I still do not one hundred percent understand it.  There were a lot of quotes that stood out to me about solitude, so finding quotes from Letters to a Young Poet was very easy.
    Although I had already selected the quotes, I had no idea what other elements to put in the mashup, or how to incorporate them.  It was very difficult to find a place to start with this mashup.  I kept re-reading the rubric, yet I was not sure how to get a decent grade on this assignment because I have never done anything like it before.  Then, I realized something about this assignment.
     There is no right answer.
     The project started making more sense to me.  It was meant for us to explore our creativity and use the books we have read and the other various elements we chose to connect them with the theme we selected in the beginning.  There was no right way to do it, because everyone can interpret a connection in a different way.   So thats when I just went with what I thought made sense.  Although it may not make sense to someone else, it makes sense to me so I think I ended up putting these various elements together in a meaningful way.