SyllabusCritics101Spring2008

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Advice
At the end of the semester, Practicum Block students were asked, "What advice would you give to someone who's going to take this class?"
 * Do the notebook throughout the class and remember your paper you do at the beginning and end.-Briana
 * Show up to every class, helps with participation.-Jordan
 * Hang in there, it wont kill you. Schedule your time wisely.-Amy
 * Keep up with your artifacts and take pride in your notebook when you're working on it. It easily can be used again if it truly represents your learning and teaching. -Ryanne
 * Make sure to do HW ahead of time because the notebook and philosophy paper can creep up on you.-Kristen
 * Don't wait to do work. Coming from someone who procrastinates like its his job, it will not work in here.-Josh
 * Be creative and look into different theories/ideas with an open mind.-Jamie
 * Be prepared to spend lots of quality time with a computer-Tamara
 * If you don't agree with something, speak up. There will be more of a chance for change if the need for change is made known.-Lisa
 * Do blogs whenever they're assigned even do them ahead if possible. This will save you time at the end for the shift, the notebook, and the philosophy paper. (READ the chapters!)-Cory
 * Do everything on time!-Rachel
 * Get involved with your work.-Unknown
 * Manage your time. and have high speed dial up.- Eleanor
 * Be prepared to do lots of group projects and doing them outside of class.-Hannah
 * You may not need to have your blogs in until two hours prior to class...but dont slack off!-Alex
 * Need more feed back.-Unknown
 * Have someone edit his or her paper because Dr. Theresa loves grammar!-Christina
 * Sell your back pack to another student not the bookstore!-Unknown

Surprises
At the end of the semester, Practicum Block students were asked, "What surprised you most about this class?"
 * No comments were given on blog entries. The workload was somewhat larger than SED 125 too.-Margaux
 * I had no idea that the majority of people in class would become as close as we all have. I feel like I could go up and talk to anyone after this class is over.-Cory
 * How creative I could get and was allowed to be. I was able to do things in presentations that may not have been "Normal" (IE spraying Andrew and Jamie with a spray bottle) As long as i gave a rational reason it was fine.-Lisa
 * I did a lot of work, but it didn't seem like it because I was having fun. Woo Hoo! -Tamara
 * The workload was large for a 100 level course (it's ok though :) )-Unknown
 * I opened up my learning about diversity ( I broadened my knowledge in it)
 * How loose and fun this course is.-Unknown
 * I had a lot more free reign over the work that I did. Although there were rules and guidelines to our assignments there was still enough space to feel like I could be creative. I learned a lot more this way.-Libby
 * A lot of classroom discussions, which I feel is important to have as part of an overall learning experience.-Josh
 * Doing the wiki and the blog because I'm not very computer literate and I was impressed with what I could do.-Kriste
 * The technology was easy to learn!-Amy
 * How much I found out about my major.-Jordan
 * How much material you can learn in such a short time.-Sieara
 * I had fun.-Rachel
 * How high speed dial up makes life more easy.-Elanor
 * How many resources I learned to use that I could use later on, when I am a teacher, such as the wikispaces <3 -Cassandra
 * How much fun the homework was and how much I learned.-Rachel
 * Workload.-Unknown
 * How creative our class was. I didn't think that our class could be so creative.-Laura
 * We were constantly doing something new and taking different approaches towards various assignments.-Lindsey
 * It reminded me of high school in that we worked with other people on projects and that we had homework that was due the next class. My other classes at UMF hasn't been like that at all, Mostly just lectures and textbook readings that I do on my own.-Unknown