Reflection On The My Story Project

The My story project, gave me the opportunity to share my life story with my fellow classmates and the professor. It allowed me to show a more vulnerable side of myself and to become more comfortable with the people in my Messina. The goal of this assignment was to present a 5-minute high impact story, so we created our own high impact version of a TED talk. While watching everyone else’s presentations, I was able to engage in other’s stories. For example; I learned that Cayla is a twin, Maddie comes from a military family, Ryan is in band with his family, several people live near each other in Massachusetts, etc. Showing my video in class, allowed me to share my story in a more digital and engaging way. I chose to make a video as my medium to present to the class. Personally, I love making videos because they let me show my technological side and I can add any graphics I want. Videos are able to touch a viewer in a different way than if I were to just to talk to them. People connect with videos on a deeper level, by giving the viewer the opportunity to interpret the story in their own way. I thought this was a fun project to do, it gave us the chance to learn about our fellow classmates. In my opinion, I didn’t feel like I connected as much to the people in my Messina, but this project allowed people to open up and share their own personal stories. …show more content…
Most of the presentations were done by showing a video, or a PowerPoint. In my opinion, the mediums used were well put together and done exceptionally well. It gave me the opportunity to understand the background stories of other students and how they grew up. Meeting someone for the first time, after 18 years of their life is hard to adapt to a new friendship with that person. This project was a great way to showcase ourselves and describe our childhood in the medium of our