Suggestions to improve this class
Less blog posts.
With 8 classes already, the sheer number of blog posts we've written for 342A, 442 and 450B outweighs everything we've done in all of our other classes combined. I think focusing on quality rather than quantity would be a better use of time.
Also blogger is very outdated, and UBC has canvas, which is excellent for showing what posts are missing and keeps things organized. I find going through blogger is somewhat cluttered and difficult to find what I need. Also we wouldn't have to send each other 60 + invites at the beginning of the year, and accept 60+ invites because Canvas already has us organized into our classrooms. Using blogger ruins a big part of the experience in my opinion.
What I took away:
I think I've learned a lot from our inquiry project the most! I was always interested in having group work being a focus in my classroom so I was excited to be given the chance to do some research on it.
Thanks for your suggestions about Blogger vs. Canvas, Mike. And I'm very glad that you enjoyed the Inquiry 1 project! You and Jaymi did an excellent job.
ReplyDeleteYou did get very far behind in your weekly entrance and exit slips for this course -- you only submitted 5 posts from September to December, and finally did 11 others in December. Most of these 'catch up' blog posts are extremely minimal (only a sentence or two, without much depth of observation or reflection.) They seem very half-hearted and not even the bare minimum to count as assignments. I am disappointed in this.
Since you contributed well to our class discussions and did a good Inquiry 1 project, we will count this as a pass, but I would have liked to see you engage much more with the readings, viewings and activities for the course -- and in the process, get much more out of the experience! Perhaps in future you will come back to these ideas and think about them more deeply...I hope so.