Professor’s Goal 1, 2:
I think the blog assignments are helpful to understand management process. However, communication wise, I think it is not that great because I still don’t know many people in the class. I know their names from the comments they left but I have no idea who they are and how they look like. If it were not for the requirement of responding, I won’t bother to comment at all. Benefits, I think some comments are helpful, some are not, and some are basically repeating what I said. Some people didn’t put much effort in replying a comment because some of the blog entries were really long, longer than a 3 page essay. It is hard to read everything and try to reply a comment that actually reflects on the post.
I do agree that it has been a great encouragement for us to think about the class activities we did, rather than just put it behind after a while, not knowing exactly the point of doing those activities. Yes the blog has been effectively getting me to think and share my perceptions about what we did in class, so professor Kurpis has accomplished these goals.
Goal 3:
I did not know that we have to reply Professor’s posts until recently, but I did read about two of the blogs he posted before, and they were interesting. Not directly related to management but they are very thoughtful, get me to think about how I would react if I were in those situations. I think this kind of interaction between students and professors should be practiced more in Baruch, because from what I experienced in the past, I get the feeling that professors don’t really care about their students. It is good that they are teaching us the rules and principles of business, but it is better to provide more understanding of our culture and motivate us to think beyond business.
Goal 4:
It has definitely been a great way for students to easily manage and control 20% of their grade that was not test related. I have seen some blog entries with only two paragraphs and it still count so it is an easy homework assignment.
Did I understand the degree to which the test anxieties could be offset by appropriate attention to your blog?-NO
Goal 5:
Do you plan on continuing to post your thoughts or ideas about school, work, career, life on your blog after this class has ended? -Not really, unless I have time but even if I do I don’t think people in this class would have time to read about it.
So overall I think this “blog assignment” is a very unique, even though I have done a similar type of online assignment for my writing class in the past, but this is more interesting. I feel like this is really for myself rather than for the management class, although all the topics are related to management, but everything in that blog is all about me. Value…I think it motivates me to approach learning more.
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Regrading your comment about teachers and students interacting: yes this blog is a great way to share thoughts about interesting topics. It's like having a chat, only that both the professor and student can read and respond whenever it is convenient for them.
Often I feel like most professors are not very accesible. Sure they have office hours, but, usually what that means is that I wait in line in front of the classroom after class is over while the professor has to answer 15 students' questions and concerns.
Like you, I'm not sure I would bother to comment if it weren't required. However, the fact that we can start our own topics may lead me to do so in the future. Does this sound interesting and worthwhile to you? There must be some practical matters that you are curious about, the answers to which you may find if you post a blog about it. This blog may serve you (or any of us) well in the future.
I think that the blog idea helps not only professors communicate with students but it also helps students communicate with others. There are times when i asked other students in the class about what is going on because the class was confusing or I was not paying attention. Today there are many professors who wants students to read text book and take tests, with the blog we get more of a unique choice of what to do and it was also a great way to get 20 points on the final grade.
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