Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Farewell
Well I can’t believe I have finally made it through this class. I can’t say that this semester flew by for me, I think I felt every single one of these last 16 weeks. I must admit that this semester was very much a challenge for me. I always have a bit of nervousness when starting out in a new class. I guess it is because I am unsure what will be required of me, and how to go about doing things, and how teacher grades and so on. Online classes can also be hard to navigate through in the beginning. I’m not exactly sure why, but for some reason I thought that taking this class online would be easier than having to take it on the actual campus. I guess I was thinking what else could there possibly be to do besides writing an essay or two and reading through the textbook. I now know that I was wrong in assuming this. Since I haven’t been to this class on campus, I can’t say that the online class was harder, but it most definitely requires a great deal of work and determination. As I stated in the beginning of this semester, writing really isn’t my thing, and I don’t often enjoy having to do it. I soon learned that writing played a very big role in this class. But I must say that I think this class helped me to develop my writing skills. I was more used to having to write research papers, and not these sort of essays that we had to write for class. But this class helped to open a whole new facet in my life. I have always considered myself to be a good reader, but I think that this class helped me to be able to pick apart and really think about what it is that the author is trying to tell me. The first thought of having to write a blog online saddened me. I didn’t like the idea of having to write out my thought, feelings, and perceptions, and the possibility that others around the world might read it as well. But now I can say that I am happy to have been introduced to the idea of blogging. It has been a desire of mine to start up with a journal again, and I can look at online blogging as a possible way to go about doing this. It was also interesting to read the different blogs that all of you posted, especially when it was done on the same topic that I had chosen. It was cool to see the different perspectives that people had on the various writing subjects. I wish you all the best in life. Even though I have not been able to meet any of you in person, I still feel that I have come to know many of you through your blogs and in the Literature discussion forums. The pictures that you guys uploaded really helped too. May God bless all of you.
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I agree with you, at the beginning I thought what this class can require, a few essays and reading assignment and so on. But the truth is that this class was very difficult and stressful. No matter how hard I tried to make things better, everything was the same. Another thing is that this class was full of writing and I actually think that I have improved my writing skills; unfortunately my grades gave me a different aspect to that. Regardless of that, I think this class was well developed the fact that the work was well explained and the professor was always there to help. Fortunately this English class did teach what an English class is supposed to teach. There was no time to do whatever you want, whenever you want. This class was like meeting in the regular campus because we were required weekly assignments. And I have to admit that I felt every single assignment that I did. I went through them all and my critical knowledge was functioning really hard. Writing is also not something I enjoy; however, the blogs were the best part of the entire writing assignments. This was like a journal and at the same time we kept acknowledging more and more skills.
ReplyDeleteI too thought that this class was going to be easier than taking the class in a classroom at AVC. I actually had taken english 101 online last semester and didn't like it too much. I took this class with the hope that it would be a lot more fun and easy because it was with a new teacher who taught differently. It turns out that this class was about two times harder than english 101. The work load got to me, and just as the writing aspect of this class got to you, it got to me too. Navigating was that much of a problem for me because I had taken the other english class, but I can understand how you might have gotten lost. Online classes are always all over the place. I feel that it is hard for the teacher to fully get their points across to the students. Anyways, I also agree that this semester was a toughy. I don't know what it was, but it seemed as though it took FOREVER to finish. It's funny that you, and three-quarters of the people I know in college said the same thing. It must be that summer is our next break, and we all love summer. : ) Well, good bye to you, and I hope that you have a great summer. I also hope that your schooling goes great, and you accomplish all that you want to in life. I've never met you, seen you, or even talked to you, but good luck and God Bless!
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