2). What was your favorite thing about the class? What was your least favorite thing about the class? How can this class be improved? Again, be specific.
My favorite thing about the class I would say hands down was the group work. To finally interact and talk with someone about what we are learning, and different methods we were all using to complete our work was refreshing to say the least. Once again, this was my first online class and I definitely was not prepared for the sort of time that it required so when I had the chance to talk to my group members I saw how they were completing the discussions and other assignments and started to emulate them. For example, did you know that when you are posting to the Blogger, you can create a new post, and even if you forget about it till tomorrow or the next day, as long as it is still on your browser you can hit send and post it and it will post at the time that you originally hit “new post.”
In addition, one of things I did not like about the class was the way that it was set up online. I know we are the millennial generation and we are supposedly accustomed to learning from our little screen that links us to the “world”, but part of the reason I am getting my degree from San Jose State is to make connections, and engage in a classroom setting with my professor, and my peers. I know you’re thinking, well you should have not taken an online class then, well, you’re right, and this will probably be my last online class I take. Seeing how this is my first, I went into it with a little more optimism then I guess I should have.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the professor and the content was refreshing; I just do not like how these courses are being offered in the first place. Just because something possible doesn’t mean it should be done, especially in the subject of Communications. In the Bay Area we have many different cultures, languages, and religions around us. I know that I can learn all about all of them from reading some statistic online, but it’s when we actually engage with those different cultures that we learn the most and gain the most perspective. If school begins to separate us from the world, and keeps us looking forward at the screen, then we will not know how to “Communicate” when we finally do have interaction. It would be interesting to see where online classes go in the future.
Hello! It was nice meeting you. I just realized this blog is like the opposite of mine because I talked about how it being an online class was my favorite thing and having group work was the least favorite. Yours was the complete opposite. Haha. Yepp. Doing the group projects were fun sometimes, but hectic other times because I feel like we take our time doing it and then rushing it at the end, giving us a lot of pressures. We did a good job though. Yes 5 languages ftw. haha I also hope we did well in the last paper. See you at the final.
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