Discussion Forum

Personally, because of a time crunch and procrastination, I did not participate as deeply in the discussion forum as I would have liked to. I was not in class the previous Thursday because of the football game and did not fully understand the directions. If I had been in class I feel that I could have participated and understood what I what doing a great deal more and I would have gotten a lot more out of the assignment. I want to be able to fully participate in future forums so that I can have better input to it and would know more what I was talking about during the reflections. Although I did not give my all in this, I still did the assignment. I thought from what I got out of it, it was useful to be able to post my answers and read what other people in our class thought. It was interesting to see the similarities between some student’s answers and the extreme differences in a few of the others. It made me think about the reasoning for the differences and if I was giving the more educated answers or not based on my opinions. I think that having questions and responses based on more onions than right or wrong. This foundation for the forums makes it so that all of the students can produce their own ideas about a subject, article, or any other assignment we have. Forums, like our blogs, let us write about what we think and feel about a subject not so much what we know specifically; they could also incorporate both of the aspects of what we know and our thoughts are.  I feel that altogether the forums were more helpful than anything; I would rather have them than not have forums because they help me.

            I think that we should have more forum discussions in the future because I would like to be able to do them with the understanding of what they are in my knowledge now. The forums would let me show everyone my thoughts and see my classmate’s as well. For me, viewing what others thoughts are and comparing them to my own really helps me to further understand topics that I have not quite grasped. To read what people my age and my class have to say can mean more to me than what a teacher might say in the purpose of these forums.

            I really don’t have much else to say about the forums themselves except for the fact that I wish I had fully understood what I was doing. The feedback everyone gave was a lot more detailed than mine because of my lack of effort. I know now that even missing one class for the football game hurt me more than I thought it would. The forums seemed to be a big help and useful to those who fully participated in the discussions. Personally, I just read the directions and posted what I thought was correct or the most educated answers.