Evaluate your experiences with the blog assignment and the class as a whole.  What experiences did you like, not like?  What would you keep; what would you change?  Due TUESDAY August 12, responses due on the 15^th.

 Overall I have really enjoyed this super summer Communications class and the interesting structure with the blog assignments and all. The class was a little more difficult than I thought it would be, but that’s not a bad thing, there were just some challenges with timing and due dates - especially for those of us who work all day and have a hard time turning in things at noon. My biggest difficulty was trying to work with everyone’s different blog formats and logging in and making sure I got credit for commenting each week . I can’t imagine what it’s been like for you (the instructor) to try and read all these blogs and send comments to everyone each week. I do appreciate the reminder about this assignment; I totally would have turned in something on Friday at the same time as usual and then failed.
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 I think it would be a more interactive class if there were some way to get students read and comment on everyone’s blog. Towards the end I started to develop a sense of community and familiarity with a few other classmates I knew would leave comments and appreciated getting comments. It was fun to read their blogs and it was fun to have them read and comment on mine. For future classes, it might help to have everyone start a new blog using the same blogging program. That way we wouldn’t have to register with 4 or 5 different websites just to leave the required comments. I wouldn’t mind some bonus points for hyperlinking to other classmate’s blogs and Super Mario bonus points for making my own pictures and animated GIF files but ultimately I suppose this class is really about what we do with the skilles everyone shares. Hence the communication of it all. There are so many new articles about things that correlate to this class every day, but it made me sad to see that articles and responses I posted in the discussion board never got a single reply.

 Other changes I might suggest includes changing the Wood and Smith book (pricey!) or just providing excerpts from Postman’s book and supplementing the chapters and chapter summaries you provided us with more current examples. "Of course, we find the garden even in the midst of our cities." (p.197) Meaning, the root of our learning communication is identifying what's growing in our own backyard.

Best wishes! -Sam Paul