Thoughts From a Balcony

   This was a long course, and these are my final thoughts. My favourite assignment all year was definitely the Bucket List Project. I feel this way because it was the project where I had the most freedom and I could make the project fun. For every other project, I tried to make them fun as possible and it just was not possible. During this project, I made it as enjoyable as I could. On the flip side, my least favourite assignments were by far the reading and writing reflections weekly. They were long, repetitive and kind of pointless to do every single week. I mean, I am somebody who doesn't really read  but the people who are bookworms probably have a completely different opinion, but it's my final thoughts so the bookworms don't matter right now. Every Friday we read for the whole class. I feel as though I wasn't the most productive person in the class when it came to Fridays. I only read one book this whole year. I think that we could have used Fridays for something more productive. Such as assignments and continuing with the lesson. You can always read at home, but you can't really teach us anything when we aren't in class. We should make the most of it when we are in class instead of using it for just reading. Monday written reflections were absolutely brutal. I mean really, who wants to reflect on all of your assignments and reading EVERY SINGLE WEEK. This is just my opinion. As mentioned, they were long and repetitive. Falling behind in reflections is the worst. The WRN was a good idea. I am not a fan of taking notes, but the WRN actually helped me with assignments. It is as helpful as you make it. Although, the blog was a lot funner than the WRN. I love the idea that you let us add personal additions of anything we wanted. The more freedom the better! You could have made the blog as fun as you wanted, after all it's YOUR blog. Twitter was really fun. I loved tweeting. I like that you made twitter challenges every now and then so it would keep out Twitter accounts active. I usually tweet on a regular basis, on my non-school friendly account. Tweeting on my school-friendly account was different, and I thought it was be boring at first but it ended up being just as fun. The integration of technology in the course was a good investment. I don't know about everybody else, but I would rather type than write any day of the week! In my opinion, everything is funner on the computer. As a reader, I learned that I will never enjoy reading because there is ALWAYS something funner I can do that read. As a writer, I learned new writing techniques and that quantity doesn't always matter if you have great quality. Quality over Quantity. As a thinker, I realized that I have to start being more serious about everything because being silly isn't always the best option all the time. As a creator, nothing. I don't have much to say about Ms. McLauchlan's teaching, except that you should mark and give out progress reports earlier so that us students know how were doing in the class. In my case, you marked things in bulk instead of one at a time slowly. I thought I was doing pretty well in the class, then you gave us a progress report showing how we did, and boy was I wrong. I didn't realize that I should start working harder because I didn't know I wasn't doing too well, and then it was a little too late. Advice for CW students of the future, don't fall behind in the boring reflections. Secondly, the class is only as boring as you make it, so make the most fun you can out of it!