I made a little comic book that distills my main takeaways from this class. I hope you enjoy it; after a dense and often dark semester it felt good to make something light and fun (but hopefully still reflective of all of the things we have learned in this class).
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12 Comments
Rosa Hughes · May 4, 2021 at 5:36 am
Yay! So great! Your medium embodies the ideal of the hyperlinked library, it is playful and inspires others to try something like it. It also takes the ideas and makes them very accessible. Love it.
Sarah Rainey · May 5, 2021 at 4:39 pm
Rosa, thank you so much for your feedback. I’m sure we can all relate that at this point in the semester we could all use a little playtime!
Chris Hosler · May 5, 2021 at 6:58 am
Really loved the comics you created! Great art work and enjoyed your take on what you learned from this course. The sentiment about wanting everything to be perfect really resonates with me and makes me over plan/think to account for every little thing. Sometimes you just need to go for it.
Sarah Rainey · May 5, 2021 at 4:41 pm
Thanks Chris! Yes I am (secretly) a little bit of a perfectionist 😉 and this whole class has been a worthwhile reminder that action is often much more valuable than perfection.
Hope Saldivar · May 8, 2021 at 6:32 pm
Hi Sarah,
I really loved how creative you were when making your Virtual Symposium comic book. You really put thought into what you would like to cover as takeaways from our course and it was executed brilliantly. Awesome work!
Vida · May 9, 2021 at 11:19 pm
I liked this simple Socratic-ish Method to remind us of the main resistance(s) to the Hyperlinked Library. It’s the best to see a visual artistic take on this assignment. Best of luck on the rest of your semester!
Emrys Holmes · May 10, 2021 at 7:29 pm
This is such a cute project! I also admire your ability to distill everything we learned this semester into short ideas that are easily expressed in the format of a comic; it’s a great way to summarize everything and solidify it in a way that you can transmit to other people. I love it!
Amanda Limcaco · May 11, 2021 at 8:49 pm
This is wonderful, Sarah! Your comic distilled the concepts from this course into fun and easy-to-understand depictions. I recognized myself in the conflicting attitudes of the two perspectives given and feel like I’m walking away for this course as well with a more expansive view of what is possible.
M. Lillie Moore · May 12, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Hey Sarah! I love how your comic turned out! It’s a fun and easy way to introduce people to the concept.
Fredy Gonzalez · May 13, 2021 at 10:46 pm
Hi Sarah. The comic is such a great idea, and especially the characters that you created. It makes the ideas of the class flow really well.
Michael Charney · May 17, 2021 at 4:58 am
Great job on your comic! It’s insanely funny! As I’ve grappled with the thoughts the blue guy is expressing it was easy for me to enter that character’s headspace and thus be soothed by the points given by his orange counterpart. It also reminds me of an old MTV parody of the Matrix Reloaded (https://youtu.be/-5OfG_wxkJI?t=163 with the scene I’m talking about starting at 2:43) where Keanu Reeves as Neo is told by Wanda Sykes to join Justin Timberlake in doing the robot but he at first refuses because he’s afraid of failing (it’s better to watch it rather than read me describing it). Suffice to say, people get hung up on failure to the point it becomes an outsized thing.
Jessica Van Der Meer · May 17, 2021 at 5:35 pm
I loved your comic. It really did capture the essence of this course and how forward thinking vs. stagnant thinking, is what is going to continue to propel this profession.
Thanks!
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