My Access

My access was an interesting experience for me because it had so many different features.  I really enjoyed it because of all the different tools that were available to me.  My favorite part of it was that I did not have to actually write the whole essay out. This program had a place for me to pre-write and then in the end, it included it into my essay.  Doing this gained me more points for a better grade.  I had to keep working on the essay to get a decent grade, and when my grade did go up I was really excited.  I was able to experience my access from a teachers point of view and from a students point of view.

From a teachers point of view it was very exciting because I was able to see my own progress when I was a student.  It came showed me exactly what I wrote and what I did wrong.  A really cool feature that my access had was it actually came with a note that the student can take home and show the parents how well they did on there essay and it showed there grade.  I thought this was amazing because it saves the teacher a lot of work.  (Not saying that for a teacher to be lazy, but it saves a lot of time).  

My experience as a student was great because I was able to edit everything that I worked on, and my favorite part as a student was when I handed in my essay, I got results right then and there.  I didn't have to wait for a teacher to check my essay and give me a grade.  Before I handed in the essay I was offered spell check and many other opportunities to make my essay better.  This gave me the confidence that I needed to get a better grade.  When I handed in my second essay and saw that I got a 4.2, I was very happy because the essay I previously handed in was a 2.5.  It made me happy to know that I actually progressed.  

I think that this program is a very positive program for both students and teachers.  Hopefully when I become a teacher this program will be used much more then it is being used now, because I truly enjoyed working with it.

I Passed My Exam

Since this week was a free topic, I thought that I would talk about how excited I was to know that I got a GREAT grade on my exam.. =) Specifically a 97 yay!  I really enjoyed taking this exam because we as the students made it ourselves so it really should not have been difficult to pass.  It was open book and open notes, there really was no opportunity for me to fail.  So I am very proud of myself and I will gladly keep my grades up just like this exam.  =) Once again:

YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Homework

Homework is a very touchy subject to talk about because everyone feels very different regarding homework and the amount that is given.  I have been through having way to much homework and way to little homework.  I personally feel that students should be given homework because it trains you to learn and understand everything that was going on in class that day.  But my question is, is there a limit? 

When I was in grammar school I used to come home with loads and loads of homework to do and honestly I do not know if I can say that I got anything out of it.  One of the homework assignments that I honestly never understood, and I am pretty sure that everyone went through it as a kid, was having to write vocabulary over and over and over and OVER AND OVER again in our notebooks.I mean honestly, I thought that those kinds of homework assignments were just ridiculous, considering the fact that there were around 50 words and writing them out would take me all night to do.  Now if the teacher simply would have said write it out once and then memorize them for a test then it would have made me less frustrated and saved me a lot of time. When I was in grammar school, I was absolutely one of those students that had to have one of those roll around book bags because the books that I had to take home were way to heavy to carry on my back (No laughing guys because some of you understand what I am talking about as well =/)  

When I was in High school I noticed that things started to change, my homework load definitely decreased.  I was coming home with little or no books at all.  Which I have come to find out, did not help me in a positive way.  By the time I got to college I was very overwhelmed with all the work that I had to do.  I did not feel prepared for anything and I blame my high school for that.  Im not saying that my high school was a bad school, Im saying that they could have challenged us in a way where I could have felt more prepared for college.  Of course it took me a while to get used to the challenge of college and the enormous amount of homework that I have, but I have trained myself to do what high school should have prepared me to do.

So by using my own personal experiences I have shown you some positive ways that homework was good and negative ways that homework is bad.  I believe that we should have homework and challenges, BUT i think that teachers need to be wise on WHAT they are giving us for homework, because if teachers assign us useless homework we as the students are not going to be motivated to do it and it will not have a positive affect on us for the future.