Week 5 post 1

This weeks assignments have taken me about six hours to do. I find the fact that I get my peer revisons back the morning before they are due frustrating and infurating.

Week 4 post two

I am looking at about 12 hours of work for this week. Still I found the work mentally stimulating and Dr. McClures reivew most helpful.

Week 4

I must say that I am learning to dispise group work. I think I always have, but this week is a reminder of why I feel that way. I must say that my colleagues in group one are a bit of a disappointment. I imagine that it is possible they may feel the same way about me, but in the real world you don't always get to pick who you work with. I imagine I must "suck it up" and put up with it. This also reminds me why there should be a standard age requirement for college - No one under twenty four.

Growing Appreciation - Week 3 second post

I am finding that my appreciation of the course delivery is growing. Dr. McClure seems to have the course content streamlined and organized. As I have gotten used to his writing style, the work is flowing.

The one drawback is that I am having to force myself to be sure the work gets done in a timely manner. This is more of a personal challenge. Dr. McClure seems to have a good feel for what the class members seem to tolerate.

I actually bragged to a new adjunct instructor today and showed Doc off a little bit.

There is only one real complaint I have and that is the group work. I have people in my group who wait to do their group work until the last possible minute. This makes it impossible to get anything done in a timely manner. I think Dr. McClure needs to rethink the colaborative work aspect.

Week 3 Post #1

I'm not feeling the crunch to get this done as much. I got a little bit a of jump on the draft. It gives me time to look a little closer before submitting the draft for review. I really appreciate that Dr. McClure gave us until Sunday to submit peer reviews.

Looking at about 3-6 hours of work a week so far.

Week 2 part two

The assignments aren't taking me too long, but I feel like I am shooting in the dark with no return on my assignments. I have already started working on my draft of the first summary and I have selected an article. It will be a challenge to fit everything in 600 words, but I think I can do it. In addition to the six hours I have already spent on this week, I can see an addition 4 or 5.

Week 2

I have found the current use of D2L for comp 101 to be one of the most comprehensive that I have seen in the MNSCU system (I have seen a few too). It has been a little tricky, as I am having trouble with the assignments timing me out. Ususally there is one assignment that does it and I am pasting from a Word doc too. It's a little frustrating, but I have asked Dr. McClure for clarification on how the sight counts to try to avoid being timed out.

If there was one thing that I could see an improvment that could be tweaked a little, and that would be quicker feed back on the writing assignments to see if I am understanding the summarizing material. I am not sure how much of the assignment I understand.

Part 2 of first week's assignments.

Please pardon the informal nature of my postings. As I have taken the time to look at other sites I see that the informal writing style is greatly in vogue.

This week I spent an average of 3 hours per assignment and one of my writing assignments kicked me out when I submitted it for grading (that one I have spent a lot of time on). As I was traveling over the Labor Day weekend, I found the ability to work on my assignments marvelous and disturbing all at the same time. Marvelous, because I could go anywhere and do my work, disturbing because I was supposed to be relaxing instead.

My biggest concern is the fact that I posted my group assignment rather late, and the other four members of my group have not posted anything as of yet.

Composition 101 On-line Course

Comp 101 is not the first online course I have taken. I took a summer course on Shakespeare Comedies and Histories. It was a very pleasant surprise, especially because it was Dr. Bill Dyer's first attempt. I believe there were several things that contributed to the success. The first was Dr. Dyer's ("D") wicked sense of humor and wit that was evidenced in his chat sessions and questions. The chats were "pithy" and D's writing style was vivid and animated. It also helped to have excellent clips from well done productions too.

As for Comp 101, the content seems well laid out and well organized. I have already had one problem submitting a writing assignment. I was sure that I was within the time limit as I copied and pasted from a word document. I emailed the assignment to Dr. McClure and notified him. I will see how it pans out.