It seems hard to believe that another summer has gone by. At about the time I'm ready to enjoy it, fall starts making its way in.
I wanted you all to know about my first semester at Granite State College. The summer session was the first semester that I have been at GSC and it went by so fast. I took two online courses, Critical Thinking and Victim Rights and Advocacy. I'm pursuing my bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science and chose the Victim Rights course as one of my electives, among a variety of behavioral science classes. I am also a volunteer advocate for victims of violence, so this was a class that I knew I could use as part of my volunteer work. What a great course!
I wasn't sure how the online course would work out, whether I would learn anything or if it would even keep me interested. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well the course went. We used Blackboard, an online learning "environment." There were links for the class discussion board, messages, quizzes, grades, syllabus, and module (usually weekly) descriptions of what was due and when. Every week, our instructor, Kathy Minaert, would post questions/topics on the discussion board for us to answer and we would have weekly quizzes. What was nice about doing the quizzes online was that once we finished a quiz, it was automatically graded, so we could see how we did.
The discussion board always had some interesting discussions going on. We were a diverse group from different backgrounds such as law enforcement, court workers, and education. What a great group to learn from! And Kathy helped out with any questions that we had either through the discussion board or through email.
My first semester at Granite State College went really well and any of the fears that I may have had regarding how engaged I would be were completely removed. It was a terrific introduction to how well online courses are done at GSC.
I started my fall semester in September and I'll share more of that in my upcoming posts!
Enjoy the fall!
I wanted you all to know about my first semester at Granite State College. The summer session was the first semester that I have been at GSC and it went by so fast. I took two online courses, Critical Thinking and Victim Rights and Advocacy. I'm pursuing my bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science and chose the Victim Rights course as one of my electives, among a variety of behavioral science classes. I am also a volunteer advocate for victims of violence, so this was a class that I knew I could use as part of my volunteer work. What a great course!
I wasn't sure how the online course would work out, whether I would learn anything or if it would even keep me interested. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well the course went. We used Blackboard, an online learning "environment." There were links for the class discussion board, messages, quizzes, grades, syllabus, and module (usually weekly) descriptions of what was due and when. Every week, our instructor, Kathy Minaert, would post questions/topics on the discussion board for us to answer and we would have weekly quizzes. What was nice about doing the quizzes online was that once we finished a quiz, it was automatically graded, so we could see how we did.
The discussion board always had some interesting discussions going on. We were a diverse group from different backgrounds such as law enforcement, court workers, and education. What a great group to learn from! And Kathy helped out with any questions that we had either through the discussion board or through email.
My first semester at Granite State College went really well and any of the fears that I may have had regarding how engaged I would be were completely removed. It was a terrific introduction to how well online courses are done at GSC.
I started my fall semester in September and I'll share more of that in my upcoming posts!
Enjoy the fall!
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