Well, this is the last blog post for this particular class that I "have" to post. I would say that the class is completely not what I expected. However, that is not to say that I did not enjoy it, I did. I think my favorite part was the moderated topic forum discussions. It allowed so much freedom to be able to converse with classmates on such a wide breadth of topics and you could share ideas. Even with controversial issues, it was good to see that people didn't resort to anger or name-calling and I think that overall, people were really respectful of each other. That was rather refreshing to me. I have been in classes were people actually broke down and cried over controversial issues or got really angry to the point of unreasonableness. I didn't see that happening in the class. Although, I do have to say that I avoided some topics because I knew how they would make me feel and I didn't think I could maintain my "cool", so I just didn't reply. I wonder if there are other people who were doing the same thing.
The only thing that I really missed was getting to know people in person. You can meet people online and hear their ideas, but I think without the face-to-face interaction, it leaves a void. I don't really participate in a lot of online chat rooms, so perhaps I'm just not up to speed on the whole internet relationships thing, so maybe that's it. And I will admit, I'm rather old fashioned when it comes to going to school - I like the classroom interaction.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the class and I'm thinking about taking Dr. Hochenauers Blog class, perhaps next fall. :)
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