I need to stop expecting things to be a certain way. In my blog post about what I learned in this class, I stated that I learned not to judge a book by it's cover. I might need to work on improving in that area. Why? Because I expected my colleagues to write that they learned about the different types of stories that we read in this class. That is not what they wrote at all.
Molly Lauritsen learned to manage her time. She said, "I found that if I would go ahead and get them [the assignments] out of the way I ended up saving myself a lot of times stressing over it." Matthew Hindman agreed and said, "With this course however, it taught me how to improve myself with the poor time management."
Others wrote that they learned how to use the Google tools and Wikipedia. Will Paris said, "Using Google Blogger and Google Docs will be very useful tools for if I need them in the future." Kimberly Frenz benefited from these tools and said, "I can not start to explain how hard it was to do group assignments in the past...Now doing group projects are simple."
Many experienced a paradigm shift regarding how classes should be taught. Matthew Hindman in talking about Dr. Hamon's use of a flopped classroom said, "...the course is literally flipped, which means that all the research and readings are done outside the class, while all the work/homework is done inside the classroom. Alright, new things...new experiences." Kimberly Barron said, "I found out that it actually pushes me to learn the material rather than it being spoon-fed to me in class."
At the end of the day, we all learned something from Dr. Hamon. He did a great job teaching us new things, in both interesting and fun ways.
