Culminating Blog Reflection

  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.

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

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