Truth be told, I felt as if the blog didn't do anything in terms of meeting other people in the class. However, I do believe that the blog has enhanced my relations with other members of the class whom I have interacted with in the classroom itself. The blog provided me with and opportunity to express how I felt about their ideas and allowed me to get feedback on how others felt about me and my ideas.
The blog did force me to think back and share my perceptions about the group activities which usually were fun in themselves. It allowed me to compare the lessons that were taught in class with the activities that corresponded with them.
The management topics were interesting to look at and compare with other real world scenarios that were have seen on the news or through word-of-mouth. I felt that there was an adequate amount of outside reading to do via the blogs themselves.
Us being in control of the 20% of our grade is double edged sword because it deviates outside the normal test taking behaviors that we are accustomed to. I think that the blogs themselves can create a different kind of anxiety other than the test taking kind. However, planning ahead can counteract this anxeity because the blog entries are as simple as a student wants it to be. But I do see how the blogs can offset the test anxiety bacause it allows us to take as much time (before the blog entry is due of course) to think, prepare and write our blog entries.
I think the blogs were a great oppurtunity to express myself and I hope to continue posting on my blog after the semester is over. I feel that the blog entries should remain a part of this course because more and more, employers are looking at the online persona of you as well as the in person persona so it helps to have an online presence that will be a positive outlook on oneself.
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i think all the students had the same feeling towards this blog assignment. i agree with you on the anxiety part. Though the blog entries themselves seem simple in the context of writting something of the top of your head, thinking about what to write and presenting it in a coherent manner was the difficult part. Also the due dates were something to keep in mind too. Even though we were in control of our grades, it was still our grades so we had to perform and take it seriously as though it was a term paper or some kind of a test.
For me it was all in the expierence and to know that 5, 10 years from now i could go back and type in the URL's n reread some of my college years...
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