English Comp Week 4 Review

This week we had to revise our Proposals from a couple weeks ago and our Responding to Pop Culture papers as well. The instructor emphasizes the need to work early, but I didn’t receive my revised first draft until Thursday so I had two days to work on it. The feedback was via Screen Cast so I was able to visually see what I needed to work on. Like DGL, the online interaction between students seemed to fizzle out after the first couple of weeks, but there were a couple people I plan to hopefully stay in touch with.

My textbook, Imaginative Writing, came yesterday for Creative Skills Development which starts on Monday. I honestly barely used the e-book provided for English Comp. It was just easier to Google stuff instead of opening up the reader, then the book, then look up the pages… I definitely prefer a tangible book. 

English Comp Week 1 Review

So far, so good. This class has so far been way more relaxed than DGL and  the networking being done on here has been tremendously better as well; the interaction amongst students, of all studies, is inspiring. Being an online student networking is super important and you can tell who really wants to succeed by their effort put forth. The writing assignments have not been that bad and they are actually kind of enjoyable. I do hate the e-book though. That’s just me though. I prefer tangible books that I can make notations in and physically carry around. Oh well, I shall overcome. This class is so laid back that I actually forget about deadlines… The best part… there are no Wimba sessions, thank God. The only slip up I have had so far is that I did not realize that there would be five or six discussion questions for this course so they overlap with others and this threw me off and I had to rush through; still got an 100 though (smug, smug, smug).

Digital Literacy Wrap Up

My Digital Literacy class wrapped up a couple weeks ago. In short, the class was definitely not what I expected going into it, but I did learn how to kind of use iMovie and there was a couple of interesting videos that were assigned to watch. The interaction was the class was almost nil however and I would have liked to see more networking being done. I want to say that it was just because it was the first set of classes and everyone was getting acclimated so hopefully I can make make some connections in my next class.

Digital Literacy Week 4 Review

This last week of classes went by fairly quick and smoothly except for a couple of snags. The topic was online privacy and your personal online reputation. The project was to be done with either Garage Band or iMovie, both personally confusing for me (new Mac user). The assignment was to make a time capsule-ish presentation on your future goals and what you have learned. There were iMovie and Garage Band guides provided, but this was one of the times I wished I attended on-campus where there was a physical instructor. Overall it was a good week.

Disconnect

I am currently wrapping up the third week of DGL and there is definitely a clear lack of enthusiasm for this course. Discussion boards are stale and forced and the Community Board was empty until the instructor pointed out that networking was important. I have tried to reach out to fellow classmates, but it seems that no one is really interested. I hope this gets better as we move into the courses specific to our field of study because I cannot physically attend the campus.