The collaboration and conversation facilitated by the use of blogs and videos were really interesting to utilize in this class.
Too often in other courses the tangible essays or tests that we take are often thrown away or shoved under some shelves after the class is over. The use of blogs and videos on the internet allows the materials that we create to be easily accessible for us to look back to in the future. I think that this is much more useful to know that we could be passing on our knowledge and learning for other people in the future.
Furthermore, what was really great about the blogs and comments is the conversation with our classmates. It is not often that we get to listen to everyone's opinions and discoveries. The blogs and comments allow us to gather information from our peers and also express how we feel. In discussion it is often that people who are more aggressive gets to talk more but the blogs and comments allow an even level playing field.
The YouTube component was great in that I had to understand the material a lot more in order to speak concisely. I like that exercise taught me to be firm about my opinions so that I could express it out loud. One thing I didn't like as much was watching the YouTube videos of other people's. I thought that it was redundant from the blog materials and took a lot of time.
Overall though, I thought this was a very innovative way to share thoughts and learn!
I agree with you on that collaboration helped me to learn the material in a different way. For exams, it seems that many get stressed over learning material that would appear in the exam. Likewise, I liked that we preferred learning over grading. Hopefully, we do end up with good grades though. As for Youtube videos, they were a bit redundant. I would have hoped that we do like 2 blog posts or 1 YouTube video, but repeating what you wrote in video helped me to think about the material.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on that commenting on other people's YouTube videos did get quite tiring and hard to follow. A lot of times, I had to refer back to the person's original blogpost in order to truly understand what the topic entails. I think a better way to go about incorporating YouTube videos into our assignments is by doing half of a blog on video, and follow up with the other half by writing a blogpost. This way, the viewers will pay greater attention to the videos and put more effort into comprehending the points made in both the clip and post in order to reach a holistic understanding of the topic at hand.
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