Okay...one more entry...

This entry is in response to Adam's blog on the e-journaling assignments. I agree and disagree with you Mr. Thane, allow me to explain my ideas here. Okay, so this is the second class that I have taken with MS where e-journaling was a major part of the course grade. My first semester, I HATED the online journal, because I, like a majority of students, am paying for my own education and working my derrier off to get through school...basically I don't have the money to purchase a computer of my very own, so I am left to fight the other 10,000 students for one at the library. This makes completing the assignments mildly difficult at times. However, my appreciation for the online journaling process is much more advanced this semester, as I have found it fun to "dink" around other's online blog sites to see what they are really thinking. Also, I can see how it would benefit MS in accessing his students, as a majority of the class doesn't talk, and he probably has about a zillion students to try and grade. This online journal allows him to see what we are really thinking and to see how we engage our brains with the course work. So I have gained an appreciation for this online journal, as I have some mild "test anxiety" and I do not feel that testing is an adequate form of evaulation, as we have covered SO much in this semester that it is difficult to access the quality of a student's success by rote memorization alone. Testing, in my opinion, is basically scholastic vomit...where we, as students, shove as much information as we can down our throats, and regurgitate it all over our desks for the exam. Online journaling is like lots of mini-papers, where we can really engage the material and become better scholars by thinking critically. So, in conclusion, I respectfully disagree with you Adam, as I enjoy the journals...much more so than the tests... ;)