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.