Overall, I learned a lot about myself and the world outside of high school from this project. Before starting this project, I had terrible communications skills but now my communication skills have grown. For my mentor hours I took an online class which required me to communicate with my teacher about the mentor forms. I also had to communicate with other students by responding to their forum posts, creating a small debate each week. I used critical thinking in every assignment I did for this class because these assignments required me to do research and develop an argument to defend my point of view.
This project showed me that I do not want to take any online classes when I go to college because I prefer to learn in a classroom setting. This project also helped me develop my communication and writing skills. Every week I had to do a written assignment and research which helped me develop my research and writing skills. I also learned a lot of interesting things about media law. For example I learned about freedom of speech, internet regulations, conflict of law and defamation. Before taking this class, I had no idea that there were so many laws regarding the internet. I also learned some helpful information about my rights.
Even though I really enjoyed taking this class, I did face a few challenges along the way. One challenge was keeping up with all the work for the class, especially the reading from the textbook. Since this class is online, it was very easy for me to forget about all the assignments and due dates. In order to overcome this challenge, I made sure that I logged onto my class website every Tuesday to see what the assignments for that week were. Another challenge that I encountered was keeping up with the other students, who are all older than me. When I first started this class I felt like my writing skills were not at the same level as some of my fellow students. Despite this, I continued to do my assignments and I was very lucky to have such nice and patient students in my class. Even though I struggled with understanding all the lessons in this class, I still managed to get a 93% on my midterm. This is my greatest accomplishment of this project and I hope to finish this class with a good grade.
Friday, April 17, 2015
week 12
March 17,2015
This week was the 12th week of my online class and the subject was Defamation. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor overview on Defamation and I also watched a video on the internet defamation. This week I also, read all the sources provided by the teacher. One assignment for this week was to read chapter 9 from the textbook which was about defamation. The forum question for this week was "What is Cyber and Online Defamation?" And as always, we had to reply to three other students' posts. I liked learning about this subject because I did not know what defamation was before I did the research for this assignment. I also enjoyed learning about the different types of defamation and how to handle being falsely accused of defamation.
Time: 3 Hours
Time Logged: 25 Hours
This week was the 12th week of my online class and the subject was Defamation. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor overview on Defamation and I also watched a video on the internet defamation. This week I also, read all the sources provided by the teacher. One assignment for this week was to read chapter 9 from the textbook which was about defamation. The forum question for this week was "What is Cyber and Online Defamation?" And as always, we had to reply to three other students' posts. I liked learning about this subject because I did not know what defamation was before I did the research for this assignment. I also enjoyed learning about the different types of defamation and how to handle being falsely accused of defamation.
Time: 3 Hours
Time Logged: 25 Hours
Sunday, April 12, 2015
week 11
April 12, 2015
This week was the 11th week of my online class. The topic for this week was Intellectual Property. The first assignment was to read and watch all the resources provided by the teacher. The second assignment was to read chapter 8 from the textbook which was about Intellectual Property. The last assignment for this week was to take a short quiz about trademarks and then answer a few reflection questions about the quiz. I did not do very well on the quiz, but I reviewed the explanations of my wrong answers. Next week we are being assigned groups for our group research papers. I am nervous to work with the other students but I am determined to keep up with them.
Time: 3 Hours
Time Logged: 22 Hours
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
week 9
March 24, 2015
This week was the 9th week of my online class. The topic for this week was information access and protection. I was really excited for the lesson this week because it goes perfectly with my essay. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor overview which was about gathering information. The forum question for this week was "Can Blogs be Journalism?". I argued that blogs should not be considered journalism because they are usually based on people's opinions, not facts. The second assignment for this week was to read chapter 6 from the textbook which was also about information gathering. Next week I will not have any assignments for the class because it is spring break. I plan on using this time to catch up on the reading.
Time: 2 Hours
Time Logged: 19 Hours
This week was the 9th week of my online class. The topic for this week was information access and protection. I was really excited for the lesson this week because it goes perfectly with my essay. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor overview which was about gathering information. The forum question for this week was "Can Blogs be Journalism?". I argued that blogs should not be considered journalism because they are usually based on people's opinions, not facts. The second assignment for this week was to read chapter 6 from the textbook which was also about information gathering. Next week I will not have any assignments for the class because it is spring break. I plan on using this time to catch up on the reading.
Time: 2 Hours
Time Logged: 19 Hours
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Week 8
March 17, 2015
This week was the 8th week of my online class. On Monday I took the midterm for this class. Before I took the midterm I was very nervous because I did not feel prepared but I was wrong becaue I got a 93% on the midterm! The next assignment for this class is a team research project. In order to prepare for this we had to choose a topic we would be interested in writing about and post it to the forum. I wrote about the issue of finding accurate information online. This assignment is perfect for me because I focused on this issue in my research paper. Another assignment for the week was to read chapter 5 from the text book which was about gathering information.
Time: 2 Hours
Time logged: 17 Hours
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
week 7
March 10, 2015
This was the 7th week of my online class. The topic for this week was conflict of law. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor video on conflict of law. The first assignment for this week was to answer the question about the survival of conflict of laws rules and post it to the forum. As always we also had to reply to three other students' posts. I had hard time understanding this weeks assignment because the vocabulary was a little too advanced for me but I still completed the project. The second assignment for this week was a fill in the blank worksheet. This assignment was much easier for me to complete. Next week is the midterm and I am very nervous for the writing portion of it.
Time: 2 Hours
Time Logged: 15 Hours
This was the 7th week of my online class. The topic for this week was conflict of law. At the beginning of the week I watched the instructor video on conflict of law. The first assignment for this week was to answer the question about the survival of conflict of laws rules and post it to the forum. As always we also had to reply to three other students' posts. I had hard time understanding this weeks assignment because the vocabulary was a little too advanced for me but I still completed the project. The second assignment for this week was a fill in the blank worksheet. This assignment was much easier for me to complete. Next week is the midterm and I am very nervous for the writing portion of it.
Time: 2 Hours
Time Logged: 15 Hours
Monday, March 2, 2015
week 6
March 2, 2015
This week was the 6th week of my online class. The topic for these week was internet regulations. The first assignment for this week was to watch a video about internet regulation, internet freedom and internet activism.The video was an episode from a show called "Adam vs.The Man". The second assignment for this week was to write a short essay about the Facebook privacy policy and post it to the forum. We also had to reply to three other students' posts. Another assignment for this week was to read chapter 4 from the textbook and review the questions at the end.
Time:2 Hours
Time Logged: 13 Hours
This week was the 6th week of my online class. The topic for these week was internet regulations. The first assignment for this week was to watch a video about internet regulation, internet freedom and internet activism.The video was an episode from a show called "Adam vs.The Man". The second assignment for this week was to write a short essay about the Facebook privacy policy and post it to the forum. We also had to reply to three other students' posts. Another assignment for this week was to read chapter 4 from the textbook and review the questions at the end.
Time:2 Hours
Time Logged: 13 Hours
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