Wednesday, March 9, 2011

February has come and gone already

Time is flying by these days, February has already come and gone,we are already into March, and this Winter semester is drawing quickly to a close. Since my last post, we have gotten our Portfolios up to this point marked and written our midterm.

I was pretty happy with my Portfolio mark because I have struggled with the stuff we have done a little and the feedback on my mark was both a help for the future and to correct any mistakes that I made, and it was also an encouragment that I'm not doing quite as bad as I thought I would. There are many places that this portfolio will be helpful, so with a little bit of work here and there I can fix it up and better show my capabilites in this area. I really have enjoyed some of the pieces we have done, and there have been some frustrating pieces but I can see the merit in both. I really enjoyed watching the other videos the class had made, some of them were really funny.

With the midterm I had no idea what to expect going in. That sounds bad because we were given a very clear description and outline of exactly what was going to be on it. What I mean when I say I had no idea what to expect going into it, well I mean each teacher is different in their exam styles, and also this class is a technology class so it was hard for me to imagine the possible questions. When I looked over the textbook it seemed pretty basic and self explanitory, but there is a lot in ten chapters and as I have previously mentioned, I procrastinate a lot, so as usual I left my studying to be done last minute and kindof half heartedly unfortunately.

It really feels good to be done the presentation now, a lot of stress off my shoulders. I feel that it went pretty good, Im quite a nervous public speaker (despite a lot of practise) and so I was a bit of a wreck going into it, and throughout.  We all put in a lot of effort and practised to get it just right. Of course its never exactly the same in a little room vrs in front of a class full of your peers but Im still happy how things went. I was really impressed by the group that went first, there are so many things that can go wrong and they experienced quite a few of them but they soldiered through it like champions.  They  had the topic i had originally wanted to do but it filled up pretty quickly. It was really interesting and they did a good job. Its definately a hot topic.

Its been a quick and interesting couple of months so far and the rest of the time is going to fly by.  :)

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