Initially I found it difficult to figure out what was meant by framing and reframing. However, after some thought and observation I have come to the conclusion that this class is about thinking of the resources, technology, and concepts we have in as many different ways as possible. This class is framed in such a way that we will develope skills in manipulating media, but not in a traditional 'computer skills class' sense. We will be learning to use media as a tool to tap into the bigger culture of the world which is brought together by many different mediums.

Thus far the reframing ideas I have seen in this class have been interesting and diverse. From Bogdonovich to the Persuaders, each instance has given as slightly new perspective on something seemingly mundane. Looking at a good movie as an indelible piece of time, seeing education as an emergent phenomenon that comes with interest instead of force, discovering a tapestry of human experience in the form of a website, considering the focus of today's industry and environmental concerns as a shift from the broad to the focused takes place, and taking a closer look at the world of advertising and sales, all of these are reframings of concepts which I had previously thought had limited facets.

A moment of reframing came when I first came to this school. Before I had thought of music as a career, but after entering the music world here I have come to see music as an experience instead. It has changed from a job to a communication tool.

The diagram of the material we have seen so far is my way of visually defining what each piece was about. Each shape represents a key aspect of each presentation. The reason I connected the shapes in an all inclusive web and not in a loop is that I am in the process of reframing the way I view the impact of each on the other.