Professor, I think that the blog assignment was not only motivating but also intriguing. It was a great addition to the class because of its value and innovative thinking that we acquired. I never had a class that included a consistent blog throughout the semester with this intensity, however, the blog was too time consuming. The blog assignment also gave me an interesting insight of how others viewed different class activities. The blog was a powerful learning tool that showed different perspectives of the same in-class assignments. I think that it originated conversations in and out of class which never would have happened without the blog. I found it a little difficult to benefit from meeting others online because I was too busy focusing on getting the blog assignments done as one of the class goals. The blog assignments made me think analytically about what we were doing in class and overall improved my thinking and analytical skills. Now that I look back at the class activities I clearly remember them and their significance. I can also take what I have learned and apply it in the future, out of class. That credit is owed to the blog assignments, because without them I would not have understood the significance of the class activities. In addition, I thought that the professor blog entries were interesting because it made us think outside the box.
American culture is dependent on time. The blog assignments made up 20% of our grade and gave the class the opportunity to do well by just participating. However, for students that are from abroad, I can imagine difficulty with the time constraint on the blog assignments because most countries in the world have a lax time frame which expects everyone to be late. It is part of their culture not to be on time. I know because I have family abroad and timeliness is just something one must get used to when the come to the
I agree with you regarding all the benefits that the blogs had for us students and our learning. This was definitely an effective technique for drilling the management information that we learned in class into our heads since we would have to go home and reflect on it through our blogs. I also feel that the number of assignments was very fair as was the amount of time we had to complete them. It was a unique experience and a good one as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the benefits you said, but I don't think they were too time consuming. Since it was informal and basically a free write, it only took minutes out of my day and there were only about 6 assignments the whole semester so I didn't have to actively be on my blog.
ReplyDeletea agree that the blogs did improve our skills for remembering the material becuase it gives us something that we can picture when we study the material. we can remember other peoples' view on the subject material.
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