Reflection

I thought the blog assignment this year was very interesting. It gave us real insight of how some university classes may be, and since we are becoming more and more technology dependent, I won’t be surprised if more of our future classes are held online. Most of the topics that I researched were interesting like ‘the impact of climate change on aquatic life’ and ‘the impact of pollution on the atmosphere’. I am sure we all learned a lot since we were all forced to contribute by researching new topics that we never would’ve on our own and reading and commenting of other student’s topics which they have researched. I really like the commenting part of the whole blog assignment because we got to give our opinions and also receive opinions from our fellow students.

But what I didn’t like about the blog assignment were the due dates. I always got caught doing the assignments on the last days, which is my fault. Also in the beginning I always forgot that I had to write a blog for that week, or when we had tests coming up for biology, I didn’t want to have to keep worrying about the pending blog assignment. Another thing that I did not like was not necessarily to do with the blog assignment but with the numbers which we were secretly assigned. This was meant to make the commentators and bloggers anonymous. But everyone could figure out each other’s “secret” numbers because it was based on our seating order; this might have prevented some students from writing what they truly felt about another students blog.

Overall I think the blog assignment was a wonderful idea for homework assignments. It forced us to learn outside the classroom, and prepared us for what university has to offer.
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