Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Reflection on course blog

On the whole, I have been very impressed with our course blog, in terms of both its content and its originality. I feel as though as a class we have done a wonderful job in coming up with insightful observations and wording them in original, thought-provoking questions. It is interesting to review the blog posts now that we are almost done with the class, as they essentially provide a mirror to the strengths and weaknesses of both the class structure and the individual classes themselves. Towards the middle of the blog, for example, the subjects being posted got fairly repetitive; we had several in a row that were entirely focused on the rhetoric of disease, and we found ourselves straining to find new topics. This could be taken as a sign that we spent too long in this class covering this particular topic, that we were effectively beating a dead horse. We had several blogs, however, on both the government's and our own roles in the public good, each having fresh new perspectives and ideas. Perhaps, then, we should have spent longer on this subject, as it seems as though we could have said even more on this subject. I do wish we had discussed the blog more often in class. There were some very insightful comments made every week that rarely got any credit. In short, I feel as though the course blog was a very helpful tool, but I would make it a larger focus of the class.

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