This past week I have had the pleasure of being the media curator for all of the Rhetoric of the iPhone  social media accounts. I have really enjoyed this assignment, as it was a fun type of homework so it created a more fun and entertaining learning environment.

My favorite part about being the media curator was having the opportunity to manage the course Instagram account. Instagram is one of my favorite apps to use on my phone, especially since I love looking at and taking pictures. I liked how laid back it was and how much freedom I was given in posting pictures, which was fun as I was able to show my personality through my posts. I also really enjoyed making my Spotify playlist. My playlist has a lot of variety in the different genres so hopefully everyone will find some songs on there that they like!

The toughest part of this assignment was definitely staying on top of all of the posts. I tried to tweet every day as well as post an Instagram photo about every day as well so that I could spread out the posts. In the beginning, it seemed like a lot and was stressful to think of what to post. However, as the week progressed and I figured out ideas of things that I could post, it got easier and came more naturally. Since I was already familiar with all of the media sources that we used, it helped me a lot as I use Instagram often and just needed to refresh myself about Twitter. I haven’t used Twitter In a couple of years, but I still knew the basics so it was easy to just refresh myself.

Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment and felt like I was able to learn and grow from it. I have never had a homework assignment like this for any of my other classes, so I liked how it incorporated the technological aspects by having us post to social media accounts. This gave it a whole new feel and made it a more fun learning experience in the end. I had a great time with this assignment and hope that everyone enjoyed my posts!

-Meg