When I first heard Professor Mangini say that we would not have test or quizzes and really only 2 formal assignments I was shocked. How were we going to be graded? How were we going to learn? I was also very shocked to hear that we did not need text books either. Again I asked myself “how are we going to learn?” All of my basic learning has been from either a text book, being taught personally by a teacher, or by doing what we were being taught, but you can not really do any physical learning in English right? I was so wrong. When Professor Mangini explained that we were going to make websites and have blogs and that the websites were going to be where we kept our drafts of all our assignments, I was a little standoffish towards the idea. What if the websites crashed? What if the internet goes down? Although these were concerns of mine I decided I would give this new way of learning a try and if I did not like it I would drop the class or switch professors. The first few weeks of class I did not know how to feel about this new learning process. I did not love it but I didn’t hate it. Two more weeks passed and that’s when I decided that this way of learning was actually pretty cool. It was different than the way I was being taught during the day in high school and it kind of nice to only have to worry about meeting paper and blog post deadlines instead of worrying about studying for a test or quiz. I also really liked the idea that when we handed in a draft of our paper and Professor Mangini read over it, all he did was give revision advice he did not necessarily grade the draft. I thought it was really cool that we could revise our blogs and formal assignments as times as we wanted throughout the semester to work towards the grade we wanted. This type of learning was very new to me, but I liked the way Professor Mangini explained the way he taught instead of just teaching the way he taught and let us figure out how to deal with this new way of learning. I also liked that Professor Mangini got us out of our seats. We did not sit in our seats for three hours while he lectured us. He did not really lecture us at all he explained some processes of learning and then let us work on our projects. I liked that we talked about the readings we were assigned after they were assigned we were not left to analyze them ourselves and hope we analyzed them correctly.
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