I believe that collages are better than traditional writing. The collage method works best for me because I am a visual learner. Going back to one of our old class readings I said that I agree with the following statement “It’s Google making us stupid”. Due to our access to Google, social media, and the internet, I believe that most of us have become visual learners since we are also exposed to photos and videos 24/7 through our devices. I love the creative liberty we had doing the collages, and the difference it was from reading long writings and getting lost in all the repetitive words and some unknown vocabulary, pushing me to read paragraphs twice or three times. Creating my collage I changed my idea 5 different times because I kept finding different things I wanted to use. I wrote with a clean feminine concept and used different words that I’m shooting to become in 2024 with different fonts, almost like a visual board Idea. I understand that the only thing I did not like about this assignment is I wish we were able to do more of this and I was able to create all of my ideas, even a slide show presentation assignment would be really interesting.

I personally really enjoyed this activity, we were able to make our own creative collage on anything we like or find interesting. I was able to create my own theme and figure out my own way of putting the images together while still making everything correlate with each other. I was able to express myself in a different way than usual. I was more passionate in my topic of gaming. Gaming is a way for me to escape from my reality and be in my own world. I can just play without worrying about anything else. It helps me feel something different and be away from all the stress in the world. I love to play different types of games but one of my favorites is Fortnite. I really like that game because it’s always changing. A new map, new weapons, new tasks and so much more. You are able to play with your friends, meet new people and always have an objective with the game. Overall this activity did bring me joy while I was doing it and I really hope we can do something like this again.

Doing this collage was a lot of fun doing this made me think more about what I want in life and things I enjoy doing as well. Also saw that with this I got to express myself not holding back on what i want to do right now and in life. I want to travel everywhere do anything I want to do and just having a great job as well. At this moment I know there’s a lot to do to get to where I want to be at but I know the first thing is to focus in school, graduate making myself and my family proud. Sometime it can be hard and I lose focus on what I want to do so something to help me is a quote which I also have on my lock screen which is “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.”- Jim Rohn This really helped and Im just happy I got to see that this is something I want to make as the years go by.

https://asulca.mmm.page/english

I enjoyed making the collage, even though I was having trouble with the website originally. I like the idea of collages as it allows you to express yourself and your ideas in ways that would be difficult with words. The use of pictures help your audience see what image you are trying to create and can really feel the emotion you are trying to get across. I liked how there were already gifs and images to use that would help structure my layout for my collage and how it was easy to copy and paste an image onto the collage. My only problem with the collage is that it kept shrinking down my work and some images simply would not work on the collage. If I were to expand on this collage, I would add a border around the edge of the collage and would upload some images that I took myself to show my connection to my topic.

https://dylanbudhr.mmm.page/budhr

I liked using the mmm.page because you was able to play around with the tools and it allows to you to expresses the message you are trying to send in your own way. It ‘s a way to express yourself visually and I like it. Instead of saying a lot in a piece of paper, you can show your message through the collage. In my collage I tried to show the side of what’s my version of being a girl. I made it pink, and started to add things like favorite characters and show quotes, simple images of shopping bags, and just things that make me feel girly. I honestly was playing around and threw in “I’m just a girl”, “how I love being a woman” and a bow that represents coquette because that’s the memes going on for the girls. There is definitely more that I can add on into that collage but I didn’t want it to look like a lot. Honestly all I can say is that it I liked making the collage and I loved making it pink. 🙂

https://grettell.mmm.page

I did really like this activity, I ‘m not super comfortable with telling people what kind of a person I am because of how they may judge me. I think adding simple pictures and memes such as like I did really helps people really understand who I am. It was also fun to with simply dragging and dropping whatever came into my head. Resulting in people who look at my collage get a sense of me and who I am, maybe not to the full extent but it’s better than nothing. I also think it was a great activity, there wasn’t much thinking and I loved that part, also self expression is super important like I’ve mention. Not just to other individuals but yourselves.

https://mmm.page/otislikedacow.main

I liked using mmm.page to create a collage. I think the full freedom you have to make whatever you want makes the experience very fun. It helps to have that creative freedom when trying to get a point across. My collage was just a collection of interests basically, no real message behind it, but it was fun moving things around to create an interesting picture. Due to the inherit freedom with collages, you can show a visual representation of the point you are trying to make, something that traditional writing cannot do. I don’t know if there was something I didn’t like about the website, it seemed good to me. I wouldn’t add anything to my collage seen as it was just a silly first one, but I would definitely want to make more for other topics.

https://irisc.mmm.page/iris

I put my collage together focusing on the topic of climate change. Climate change is a significant issue because it harms our environment and health. Not only does climate change impact us, but it will continue to impact future generations if something is not done. Instead of presenting this topic in a traditional writing method, a collage can better bring out the message with its images. We connect with images more than text because they instantly inject characters and emotions. In addition, colorful images are more appealing than black and white words which lessens the likelihood that readers will leave the page. I really liked this website because it was easy to use. There was a wide variety of stickers and it only took a second or two to add them to my work. It is much better than other tools like Google Drawing because all the tools on the website are simplified whereas there are so many tools on Google Drawing that it can be overwhelming. There wasn’t anything I disliked about the website and I find myself using it in the future.

https://wendyy4.mmm.page/climate_change

I enjoyed making my collage, it was fun to bring images and art that I like together. I think images and photography are able to communicate more immediately than traditional writing. It takes less than a second to consume a photo, but it may take anywhere from a couple of minutes to years to come to a comfortable understanding of even an excerpt of writing. Photos can invoke a desired reaction as quick as (or quicker) than music, in my opinion. Personally, I incorporated my love of art in my collage. I feel artists have a heavy impact on my life and I’m connected to the ways in which photography, pop culture, music, etc. all work to shape my taste as I get older. I think growing up in an environment that encouraged my creativity really contributed to my confidence which I’m grateful for. The only thing I wasn’t a big fan of on the digital page was that the GIFs seemed a little outdated. Other than that, I had a good experience. I wouldn’t add anything else to my collage, but I would definitely enjoy making another one.

https://mmm.page/ayab.main