Saturday, April 23, 2011
2-Per-Week Limit
This is a very odd restriction to place on a student. While I myself have put much less priority in filling these than others, I do not see how this restriction could benefit writing. For example, say Student A publishes two exemplary blog postings on Tuesday, and then at class Wednesday, he is enlightened by the discussion, and gains an idea for a new blog posting. Sadly, he must wait several days to post this, and in the meantime he has other classes and various tasks to handle. By the time he comes again to post his blog, he has lost his initial vigor on the topic, perhaps even going so far as to forget it. I say this now at eleven PM on Saturday, technically the last day of a week, on a constricted schedule. Perhaps this is a form of punishment for prioritizing or forgetting differently, but the question remains: how does it help develop a writing style? My answer is that it is pointless, but then again what position am I to talk. This is probably just myself complaining at something for having to do this now, having basically forgot about it until now in comparison to other things I need done. Oh well, a blog post is a blog post. Perhaps I am wrong; this one in particular seemed to be an efficient probe for writing as an outlet of annoyance.
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You are not alone in feeling this way. We had this discussion in my class as well.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your claim, I myself work 40+ hours a week and am finding it very dificult to follow these guidelines as well. I think in dropping this it would be beneficial to alot more people.
ReplyDeleteNick, I agree with you. It is hard to remember how many posting you have and how many replies you have. I just wish there was something in the gradebook that kept you up to date on your progress with the postings. I also think that if there was a deadline each week for 1 posting and 1 response that it would have been better because I feel like a lot of people have forgot about them and now are going to rush and do it at the end of the semester. So really what is anyone learning and how is any conversation going to come from them since they are all going to be posted at the end of the semester??
ReplyDeleteI think that the limit of the 2 per week was not something that was supposed to be taken literal. If a discussion was brought up after you had made your posts, than it wouldn't be counted against you if you waited to post. I believe Emily is right on her thought of keeping everyone posting at the last minute and not getting anyone to comment let alone anyone being interested in reading the post.
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