Blog Consistency: 2
Comment Consistency: 2
Concept Integration: 4
I found the blogs to be an interesting concept and was looking forward to working on them throughout the semester. I had somewhat of an interest in watching Survivor before this class but never really got around to it so I was glad on the show choice. For the blog posts that I did submit, I felt as if I was able to make connections to the text mentally even when I had trouble putting it into words. However, I missed way too many blog posts.
Even though this is blog prompt 10, this is only my 5th posting. I could have improved on my participation by finding a better night to work on it. I would always work on it Monday after class because it was the only time I had to work on it. By the time I got home and was able to get through an episode, I would only have about half an hour to get my thoughts together and apply them to our class. Having said this, I did watch every episode of the show but wouldn’t post my blogs if I finished them up after midnight. I could have avoided this all by setting aside an earlier time in the week to work on it.
I did like that we were actually doing something with the show. I have had classes where reading was assigned or videos needed to be watched but then nothing was done with the material.
I disliked having specific chapters assigned to each week because it was sometimes hard to find things in the episode that had to deal with the chapter. Then having to do at least 300 words on something that didn’t relate was even more difficult. I also had trouble commenting on other blogs because there wouldn’t be much for me to say without repeating everything they were saying but just summarized.
In the future I would recommend having students choose which blogs they want to participate in. Perhaps have only 8 blogs be assigned and then students choose which 8 they want to write. The comments could also just be extra credit based on the quality of the comment. Or have students comment on blogs that their group members write.
Overall, the blog concept was a good idea and I would definitely use it in other classes.