Dear Classmates and Prof. Gross,
It has been a very interesting semester full of new things and full of new knowledge provided to us. This semester was the most difficult semester I have taken, and not because of this particular class, but because I have been multitasking with my personal life and 6 classes at AVC. Through it all, this class has taught me so much new things that have been kept as a skill. Blogging was actually the assignment I enjoyed the most from all the assignments we had in this class. The essay were very difficult to me, however, the peer reviews made the assignment be helpful and full of new ideas that I can include in my essay. Although this class was never taken in an actual classroom, I feel as if all the assignments we consisted of, connected every single one of us to each other. We all talked to each other somehow, either by responding to the blogs, or by peer reviews, of by the reading forum. This has been a good experience and I can actually say that this class has been the best class I have taken online. The professor made the class much easier and the assignments were given with enough explanation. Best of all the professor was available whenever we needed any kind of assistance.
Although I did not do very well on the essay assignments in this class, I can admit that I learned to cope and continue going every single week. The essays have taught me to gain so much knowledge in this class and it has also taught me to take my time and not do anything at last minute. Personally writing essays has been very challenging to me throughout my entire life. It is not something I enjoy doing, but this semester the peer reviews really made me feel much more confident on my essay because it have me feedback that I inserted in all of my thought when I would rewrite the essay assignments.
Other than all the assignments, I think the grading policy could have been better improved. I think that we did so much work with the blogs, the response to blogs, questions for analysis and so on. Yet, I do disagree with the fact that essay are worth more than our regular assignments. I personally think that the essays should have a great portion towards our grades, but I feel that the assignments also took up so much time and are only worth so little on our final grade. Regardless of what the grading policy is, this class is soon to be over and we have to move on.
Well farewell to everyone who took this class with me this semester. It has been a great pleasure to have worked together on a few assignments. Best wishes from now and on. Hopefully that everyone gains something from taking this class and hopefully your future is filled with very astonishing and positive things.
Geraldine
I agree it seems that with all of the time that it took to do some of these assignments you would think that they would have been worth a little more. The essays did take some time but I feel like the majority of the work for this class was all done for all of the other assignments each week. But that’s alright it was still helpful to have so many assignments so if you didn’t do that great on an essay there were a lot of points somewhere else to help you balance out a little. I totally agree with you about this being a difficult semester, I was in the middle of taking three classes
ReplyDeleteWinter quarter at CSUB when this class started and now I am finishing this class and the 3 classes that I am taking for Spring quarter at CSUB. So I really had to juggle a lot as well! At times it was like personal life? What is that? Haha. I think I would have enjoyed this class a lot more if I hadn’t been taking basically 6 other classes at the same time! But we made it through so Yay for us! Congrats and enjoy your summer!
I totally agree with the majority of what you were saying. I do not know what it was but this semester seemed to be so time consuming but I also felt like it went by really fast. I hate to say this but when I first took an English class at AVC, I did not really take anything away from it, the work did not seem to mean anything and I have always felt like that is one of the most important things about school. I feel like we should actually be able to take something away from all the time we put in besides a letter grade. I completely agree that the Essay’s were somewhat challenging but like you I felt that the reviewing of others papers and our own really helped us all too really get better at writing. With this class I feel that I am able to say that I really got a lot of great information and help in terms of writing and expressing myself and I did not even really notice that our class was online because as you said it felt like we were all so connected with all of the work that we had to post, like the blogs and the discussion boards.
ReplyDeletep.s. i hope the same for you!!