1. What do you know now that you did not know when you entered this class? Name at least three things?
Thanks to this class I now am significantly better at analyzing photographs, videos and real life situations for sight, sound and motion. I feel like writing the blog was almost similar to journalism in some senses as well and that by writing the blog I became a better writer and learned to express my opinions better in my writing. The third thing I learned was how different angles, lighting and shadows can enhance a message's strength or purpose in photos and videos.
2. What will you remember most about this class about your group and its performance, the class and its performance, you and your performance and me and my performance? Be specific.
The thing I will most likely remember about this class is the unorthodox manner in which it was run. I'll remember how my group was able to enhance it's performance and step it's game up throughout the semester and I'll remember my personal growth in my ability to express my opinion through blogging. I'll remember Doc Chris as being incredibly enthusiastic no matter what the circumstances are, he came in sick and still came with his A game and was always excited to be teaching.
3. Are you less aware or more aware of your environment in terms of sights, sounds and motion as a result of taking this class and please explain?
I am far more aware of what is occurring in my environment after taking this class. I pay closer attention to sights, sounds and motions after taking the class. I've also found that when watching TV a pay a lot more attention to commercials now and pretty much analyze them as I'm watching them.
4. Have you re-evaluated your views in terms of how student are educated in a classroom as a result of taking this class? Explain why you have re-evaluated your views or why you think that college should continue teaching ONLY in the traditional manner?
I used to be under the impression that all classes are pretty much the same. You go into the classroom, take a seat, and then listen to a teacher talk at you for a predetermined amount of time as they occasionally ask a question every 10 minutes or so. Taking this class definitely proved me wrong. I enjoyed the change in pace by taking this class and experiencing the edutainment that Doc Chris had to provide and while I'd say his methods were definitely effective in this class, I'm not entirely certain if they can be applied to every class subject. It seems difficult for me to imagine a biology class or math class taught with edutainment but maybe I only think this because I'd never seen it done before. I probably would have told Doc Chris his plan wouldn't work if he had shot it by me before attending class this semester and he proved it does work.
5. Now that you have experienced my teaching style based on my Edutainment & Convergence research what do you think of the future of the communications field and education fields in the future? Will the future of education be linked largely to the communications field using the Edutainment & Convergence methods and technologies that we used and pioneered the use of in this class? Is this a good thing or bad thing? Explain.
I have a hard time seeing the edutainment and convergence spreading throughout all school systems, but I'd definitely like to see it in a few other communications classes here at Loyola. I think that it would be a good thing to bring edutainment and convergence to other campuses and try to spread the joy, but I think it would take a while for it to catch on widely at all campuses. In conclusion I definitely think edutainment and convergence is a good thing, and I think it needs to be shown to more schools.
6. How many of you will be using some these Edutainment & Convergence methods in your other classes to keep yourself on track, communicate with classmates, and work in groups? If you have done this already this should be easy. Can you see yourself using tools like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, iTunesU, iTunes, Google, and blogs like Blogger to create papers, outlines, conduct research, get quick facts from legitimate sources, and more even if the teacher is not using these tools in class?
I can definitely see myself using facebook in the future to try and organize with classmates and group mates but I'm not sure if I'll be using some of the other resources. I think it depends on the subject and the way the class is run. If a teacher has students all set up blogs that everybody can share I'd definitely utilize this resource to better understand some assignments. In presentations or projects I probably will and already have used youtube to share videos with classmates and it was convenient and effective.
7. Now that each of you has assisted me in creating the course for next year's students what are some things that you would like me to add to this course and what would you like me not to use. Caution here! We have to do Vulcan throughout the semester by order of the Supreme Court Justice of Communications at Loyola: Dr. Cook. This course is based largely on phenomenology and this is an important research tool that many of you will learn to use in graduate school if you take a qualitative research course and quantitative research courses that require direct observation.
The one biggest complaint I'd have about the class is something that you have addressed and made clear was out of your control. The upset was just that we weren't given studio time to actually try and create some of our own, more polished sight, sound and motion and then record it using the camera tricks we learned in the book. It would have been cool to assign a group project where students have to make some sort of a polished video featuring sight, sound and motion as opposed to do our sight, sound and motion on the quad or observing natural sight, sound and motion in the college center. Other than that I can't think of any complaints.
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