Free Write (11/15/2011)

In doing my class project report that is due today, I learned a lot.  I learned how the many things that we have learned in our First Year Seminar Class interconnect and relate to the things that we are trying to complete in class.  The project of collecting one hundred blankets seemed daunting at the beginning but with all the tools that have been given to us throughout the course of the semester.  Some of those resources are the books How to Change the World and The Dragonfly Effect.  By putting together the ideas that came from both books, we can better learn how to create an effective campaign of collecting blankets while affecting social change in the area that we currently reside.  Another thing that I learned was that if you document and draw out what you need to do to complete a project, it is more likely that you will not miss a step in the process.  Diagrams help unclutter a complex situation.  When a diagram is drawn, all steps are labeled and can be checked off.  As you can see, I have learned a lot from this class project report.