Final blog post!

Wow, end of semester already! I can't believe I graduate on Sunday -- the year went so fast.

Anyway, I loved the blog project. I think it gave us a great opportunity to really engage the material in a way we couldn't do with reading responses or term papers. We were able to use the readings in a timely fashion, relating them to current events -- especially the 2008 election. I think this method makes the most sense for an online course, as well. It allowed us to interact with our classmates and, through that, we got to see how other people interpreted the material and how they related it to current events. This is not something we could've done with term papers or even the discussion boards. The blog posts let us really flesh out our ideas, on our own personal space, which made learning and remembering the material much easier.