Poetry Slam - Here I am!

Our class: Management, thirty-one twenty.
Our professor's name: Kurpis
Who insists that 'Distance Learning Class'
has its own purpose!

But what he proved on many days,
is that we can learn-
through very fun ways:

From creating products out of jello,
to replicating a figure - out of lego!

We learned through our peers
where our shortcomings fall,
We got a lot from this class,
even if we didn't study at all :-)

Blog re-view

I'll go through the goals that you had for this blog component to provide a clear critique. 

1) In my opinion, the blog achieved the first goal easily and the most effectively.  I was able to at least learn a little bit of the backgrounds and thought processes of my classmates.  The degree to which it extends into communicating in class is not as profound, but is nonetheless beneficial.

2) This is somewhat related to the first set of goals.  Oftentimes we can't express all that we want to about a class activity because of time constraints (the activities take up the entire class).  Many of the blogs require us to connect the activity to a recent topic, and that does help us study when we look back.  I retain a lot of what I learn only if I record my thoughts immediately after the activity.  I'm also guilty of sometimes blogging last-minute, so I don't have a solution there. 

3) I find your blog informative and revealing of your experiences.  They are interesting, and I see that they are catered to a larger audience - one that extends beyond this class and perhaps this school.  My suggestion is to include or replace them with more personal posts.  What I mean is that you can post your reflections and reactions to what we did in class activities, or perhaps how previous classes fared.

4) Being a C personality type, I've kept this 20% in my mind throughout the semester.  I think it's a fair percentage and it is a huge incentive to keep blogging on top of due dates.  I honestly believe that it's within every college student's responsibility to meet deadlines.  This 20% is a gift to me as it should be to future classes (all other things equal, haha) 

5) I do plan to post on a blog sometime in the future, albeit not this one.  My problem lies with Blogger.  Blogger is great in the sense that it's dead simple to create, and it's perfect for these blogs.  It's just not as flexible as others are.  (Wordpress, for example)

To sum it all up, I'm ok with the blogging and its point value.  I like the push it's given me the push to record my thoughts.