I was very disappointed on the scheduled times for the web conferences for this course. I really feel they are important and from the previous two courses I was able to attended all of them because of the later times. For this course, most were at 5pm, which I’m still stuck in traffic after working all day. There were others at 6pm, which that doesn’t leave enough time to get the kids homework done and get them fed. So out of 5 weeks, I was only able to attend one web conference. That one was the Saturday before the Monday the class actually started. I am so glad I did because that is when I join the awesome group of Francia, Judy, Cindy, and Charleas. I think if I would not have attended, I would be like a fat kid in a dodge ball game. After seeing emails from students not in groups, my first thoughts were they must have missed the web conference.
I felt that I disagreed with the style and framework of this course. From reviewing the saved recordings of some of the web conferences that I could not attend, others were having the same issues. I had to view the web conference to make sense of all the old useless data stored for the course. I felt a lot of the documents could have been consolidated into one, especially for weeks 3, 4, 5. The standard for assignments up until this class, has been to insert my information into the box provided within the document to be submitted. From the 30 or so documents in this course, only 10 of them followed the standard. I had to use the recording to figure out that instead of updating documents, the Prof just added another entry.
This was the first course, where I felt the Prof strayed off topic a lot during the web conference. I’m just not sure, but after watching two more, I really began to notice this issue. This discouraged me from watching any of the other recorded web conferences. I hope that since this is my third course, that the other courses don’t flow and follow this pattern.
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