It's hard to believe that it's fall. One of my friends on Facebook was saying that they thought they saw some snowflakes early this morning! Winter is coming much too fast, but when I pause to check out the fall colors, it really is a beautiful time of year.
Soooo, this semester is in full swing and we're about halfway through it. I signed up for three courses this semester: "Counseling," "Human Development," and "Human Biology." I'm taking the Counseling class at GSC's Concord NH college campus and taking the other two courses online.
I really wanted to take the Counseling class (an elective) even though it was in Concord and could be a long commute from Southern NH, about 15 minutes from the Mass border. I have found so far though, that it is a much easier and faster commute than I expected. It's convenient that the Concord campus is close to the highway too.
The classes are going well, though I have to admit that Biology is not one of my favorites. Just in general, science has never been one of my strongest subjects. Actually, it finishes dead last on any scale in my life. Though I have to say that even as an online class, Human Biology is going much better for me than I expected. It's a tough subject for me, but the format of Blackboard, the online learning environment, and the instructor's involvement and motivation in the class has helped me to, so far, to have a B average. The instructor deserves a medal!
Blackboard has a number of ways to help a person learn. There are the discussion board questions and topics that instructors post that help to look at something in different ways, there is the text book reading that provides a great source of information, weekly quizzes, and also a semester research project. I thought I might miss face-to-face conversations, but Blackboard and instructors who provide direction and support has made it so that there's almost always an online conversation going on at any time of day.
Soooo, this semester is in full swing and we're about halfway through it. I signed up for three courses this semester: "Counseling," "Human Development," and "Human Biology." I'm taking the Counseling class at GSC's Concord NH college campus and taking the other two courses online.
I really wanted to take the Counseling class (an elective) even though it was in Concord and could be a long commute from Southern NH, about 15 minutes from the Mass border. I have found so far though, that it is a much easier and faster commute than I expected. It's convenient that the Concord campus is close to the highway too.
The classes are going well, though I have to admit that Biology is not one of my favorites. Just in general, science has never been one of my strongest subjects. Actually, it finishes dead last on any scale in my life. Though I have to say that even as an online class, Human Biology is going much better for me than I expected. It's a tough subject for me, but the format of Blackboard, the online learning environment, and the instructor's involvement and motivation in the class has helped me to, so far, to have a B average. The instructor deserves a medal!
Blackboard has a number of ways to help a person learn. There are the discussion board questions and topics that instructors post that help to look at something in different ways, there is the text book reading that provides a great source of information, weekly quizzes, and also a semester research project. I thought I might miss face-to-face conversations, but Blackboard and instructors who provide direction and support has made it so that there's almost always an online conversation going on at any time of day.
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