Writing this blog for me every week, or every other week throughout this semester has been quite pleasant. The blog topics often had us reflect on our class activities in a way that really allows students to take a minute, and think deeply about what happened during these activities. My personal experience with the blogs made me think about how I felt during the activities, and how the curriculum applies to the activities. I have noticed a repeating theme throughout the course. All the activities take us through the decision making process, where there is a leader and a task at hand. I believe what Professor Kurpis is attempting to do with these activities, is to teach the students to use the lessons learned about these processes and apply them during in class activities and also throughout life.
The blogs also have enabled me to interact with students, and comment on their ideas which whom I would not have been able to in class because they sit on the other side of the room. Also those I did work with, one girl in particular who was always in my group, we would often tease each other in class with the threat of retaliation on the blogs after disagreements during class activities.
I most likely will not blog in the near future, although this class did open my eyes to blogging and the benefits of it. One day, when I become an executive, I may have my employees’ blog and possibly open their eyes to the benefits of it, while receiving beneficial feedback about work being done.
You make a few solid points I agree with and few that I also mentioned in my blog: (i) I like the idea that the blog topics had us discuss the class activities, because it truly allowed us to reflect deeply on them, (ii) I think you make a good observation in that there was a repeating theme that took us through the decision making process, and (iii) the most valuable thing that I got out of blogging was the fact that it fostered us to seek out other students thoughts and encouraged us to interact with each other.
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I believe the individual interaction with the classmates brings a lot of benefits now and maybe in the future. Though the class is king of big, through the blogging we know each other much better. I just wish that the blog could be a start point for building the networking and continuing business relationship. I wish you god luck.
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