At first, I was skeptical about having a blog because I thought it was pointless to have one. However, throughout the semester I began to appreciate and understand why Prof. Kurpis made it mandatory for us to take part in the blogging experience. Communicating through the blog allowed me to learn about my peers and interact with people I never had a chance to during class. I read everyone’s first blog entry to get a general idea of who was in my class and to discover if anyone was pursuing the same career goal as me. Furthermore, reading other blogs from classmates provided me with different viewpoints on different subject matters such as decision making and the planning process. It helped me see a bigger picture than I already envision in my mind about management. Therefore, I believe that I’ve benefited from meeting others online and learning from them.In class, we had our share of fun and meaningful class activities. Having to post a blog about what we did during class and connecting it to the corresponding lessons was a unique way to learn the subject. I had to analyze my role in the class activities and relate it to the lessons I was learning. The blog allowed me to channel my thoughts and share my perceptions with others of what we did in class. Moreover, what is special about blogging is that it allows others to give feedback.
The professor’s blogs “Monkey Business,” “The Ultimate Productivity Habit,” and Choosing the Frame that Compliments the Picture” were indeed very interesting to read. I felt that his blogs were more helpful than the textbook because it allowed us to think about the management topics related to the scenarios rather than just reading it in a textbook and memorizing it. I believe the number of blogs he posted were the right amount because it gave it a “significant feeling” since he didn’t post one up every week.
Knowing that the blog assignments were 20% of our final grade, I made sure I posted my blogs and replied to others on time. This was probably the easiest 20% you could have gotten in Baruch College. I try to do the best I can in everything so even though I believe that I am going to get the full 20% for my final grade by doing my blogs correctly, I still push myself to do well on the exams (which comes along with anxieties).
I do plan on continuing to post my thoughts and ideas on my blog after this class has ended because I feel that I can express myself better in writing that I can verbally. I think the blog should definitely remain part of MGT3120 because it allows others to learn and get feedback from each other, and express themselves without being critical of themselves.
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At the beginning of this semester, I was also skeptical of the necessity to create and maintain the blog because keeping a blog is just not something that I would normally do. However, having some experience with blogging now, I think it is a great idea to have students start their own pages and do something out of the box.
I totally agree that having the first assignment of basically introducing ourselves to our classmates is great to get a feel of who else is taking a class with you since usually we don’t get to interact with more than two-three other students in the class although we see each other on a weekly basis. It is definitely beneficial to simply read through others’ blogs to get some different viewpoints on the same subject matter and some alternate solutions to the same problems. Also, maintaining a blog is probably the best way for connecting textbook terms with class activities since it doesn’t even feel like we are studying, yet we do learn and retain the major principles this way.
I agree that writing these blogs helped think about and remember the class activites. Instead of doing the activities and thinking about it when we are done. The blogging was a great way to actually realize what we were doing and why we did it. I liked that they were a foreshadowing for what we were about to learn
Andy,
Thank you so much for the insightful comments you have been posting on my blogs, including the one on "Vision." You are always very sincere in your writing and I really appreciate it! You are absolutely right, what I would have learned a few years ago, is probably in some cases outdated by now. Back then I wasn't ready for a finance major anyway. In fact I thought that I would never go back to school. But here I am, and lucky me, I have amazing class mates like you!
I felt the same way initially. It was a different cirriculum to blog and it seemed almost pointless! However, once I started blogging and seeing other people's responses, especially as you mentioned, those that are rarely heard in class, I can see how it is a powerful communication and learning tool. I think it helped everyone get to know each other more and a sense of where people are in their lives.
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