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M14.6 FINAL BLOG

IN THIS WEEK'S BLOG, please provide a summary of the highlights of your learning for the semester. I'd also especially like to know how the small group blogging experience was for you? If there are any other comments, including critiques, about the course, PLEASE share them with me and the TAs.

 I really enjoyed the blogging experience. This was my first time ever creating and posting in a blog and I found the experience very rewarding. It is nice to have a place to write out my thoughts on these various topics as I learn about them. I think it helped me understand and comprehend the material better. It also reinforced the ideas and topics that I was learning in my mind and I think I retained much more from the course due to these weekly blog posts. In fact, I think this may even be a good way for me to study for other courses in the future. 

 I actually think it would be helpful for these blog posts to count for some small amount of credit to encourage everyone to complete them on time. This would help facilitate timely discussion between groupmates. I felt that I sometimes was responding to conversations that were relevant to class content from a few weeks ago and it would have been awesome to have everyone blog at the same pace. I also think it would be cool to have the option to explore more classmates' blog posts than just the groups we were in. Perhaps the class can be divided into 3 or 4 larger groups and everyone can just be responsible for responding to a few different ones each week. This way we would have the opportunity to engage with more students and greater variety of perspectives.

 Thank you for an amazing semester! 

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