This semester has been a very crazy one that is for sure. When I first looked at our first week of assignments, I thought it was going to be overwhelming. We had so many things to do, and this is only one class. I remember thinking; this lady must be out of her mind to assign us all of this work. It did seem like a lot didn’t it? Well, I am glad she assigned us every assignment because it has helped me to be a better writer and communicator. This class has been a real journey, even with all of these assignments. I am glad she pushed us to our limits. The blogs were my favorite because I got to vent my ideas, and my peers would agree with me, for the most part. It was nice to be able to respond to a topic without feeling judged. The blogs have also showed me that five hundred words is a lot, and if we can complete these every week than we can write essays easier, and that is exactly how I felt.
Essay came easier because of these blogs and it was also enjoyable. I also liked reading my classmates’ blogs to see how they feel and how they think. Majority of the time we were all on the same page. We were feeling the same way, or we had similar ideas. When it came to venting about our research papers that was my favorite. It made me feel so much better that I wasn’t the only one that was feeling that way. I loved this class because we all had the same goal. I felt like we were all friends just trying to get through school. We al supported one another; this is what made the class so enjoyable. We gave each other advice when needed, or just a simply phase as “you are doing great” makes me feel accomplished. I loved everything about this class, the peers, the professor, and even some of the work.
I remember thinking the same exact thing, it was so overwhelming! The readings, the critically thinking writing. It was all too much, but I am glad that they were assigned too, because it taught me to be a better writer and I better everything, I became for responsible knowing the fact that assignments were due a certain date before a certain time. Although sometimes I remember being too lazy and procrastinating that I honestly would not make the deadline. I wasn't discouraged that only made me work harder and become more aware of all the assignments that were due and when they needed to be due.
ReplyDeleteI can say that I enjoyed this class and that everyone seem to be very nice, and friendly which in all honesty I never really thought AVC students were friendly. I am glad I took this course because I learned so much and my writing can show for it. This English course taught me things that I will most likely need when I transfer to a 4-year college. But anyways I hope you do great for the rest of your college and university career. Best of luck to you and your future dreams and goals.
To: Ashlie
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, you’re welcome! I’m not exactly for what, but I also want to say thank you for being in this virtual class room. I want to thank you and congratulate you for going through this virtual journey with a f us. It has been pretty hectic, its been amazing and stressful. When I first saw the assignments list, thought I was going to fail from he start, honestly did not have faith in myself. All the assignments did help when you thin about it, they helped us all improve, well I know it helped me. I think we share the similar liking of the blogs, which were amazing. Blogging had never crossed my mind until it came to this class, it as a genius idea on how to get us to interact with this world more.
“It was nice to be able to respond t a topic without feeling judged”, I held this same perspective throughout the whole class, I wish every virtual and on-campus class was this way. I’m going to agree with the fact that when Jennifer wrote little comments on our questions or the announcements, that gave me so much confidence, she may have been behind another computer screen but it affected me very much. Have a great summer, I wish you the best of luck in your future, keep up the hard work and remember we can do anything!
I also thought this class was awesome. I liked how we communicated with eachother in the class without actually being face to face. This kind of reminds me of one weeks, don't remember quite which one, topic on communication and what we had to say to one another through electronics or other ways that did not have to do with communicating face to face. This is an example of being able to communicate with one another through electronics.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the confidence build in this class. At first I was not sure of my writing and having my peers make comments on what I wrote. I got use to it and it actaully helped me build my confidence up with my writing. There is a lot less hesitation when I write now. I think everything we used in this class helped me with my writing. It is too bad you didn't get much from the reading discussion part. I thought it helped me a little with staying on topic and I also liked how it kept going with the questions we posted after our responses, even though some were repetitive.
I overall enjoyed this class. Have a great summer as well and good luck to your future goals.
My very first thoughts when I saw the first week's agenda was: "What the F***!!" because of the standards that we the students had to meet. Honestly I thought that it was more trouble than what this class is worth, but what does that matter I am not the one who designed this class and my negative opinions more than likely do not matter, and if it truly was horrible I should have dropped before the last day I could have gotten my money back. But I begrudgingly went on with this class because it was the only English 103 class available and I needed an English 103 class in order to transfer, but I should have just waited until a face to face class was open.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I am worried about now is getting screwed in points by not having enough to make an acceptable grade and ever since our professor made an announcement about the first 65% assignment screwing up the grading system on blackboard. But if my grade is actually what it is displayed on blackboard, and if it drops any lower than that, then I am screwed and taking this class would have been a waste of time and money.
I honestly couldn’t agree more with you! I was extremely intimidated at the beginning of this course. The workload looked impossible. I had taken my English 101 class online prior to this class. I remember thinking if this class were to be anything like my previous experience I was doomed! Thank goodness Professor Gross proved that theory to be wrong! I have enjoyed all aspects of this course. I feel that I have come out of this course more confident in my writing skills than ever before! The blogger opportunities given via assignments, happened to be my favorite part of this course as well. I also agree with you on the length of the blogging assignments. Writing five hundred words each assignment initially seemed overwhelming however as the semester continued on, I found that writing five hundred words really wasn’t as overwhelming as I thought it would be. I actually found myself wanting to write more. Sometimes I would check on my word count to see if I had enough and to my surprise I would be at six hundred words. This happened often because we were able to write about topics of passion. Time flies when your having fun!
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