The contextualizations have been extremely helpful to me. I don't have any additional suggestions, particularly since my biggest problem with this class so far isn't anything that's related to anything you (Anne) has done as a teacher. My biggest problem is finding time throughout the week to do all the work.
Ninging/D2L prompts have been useful, but I'm not sure the discussion thread works for me as a student. It requires me to return to a conversation hours later, which I'm not very good at. I'm best in the moment - all this focusing and refocusing and unfocusing and refocusing makes my brain hurt. I'm pretty sure I'm not living up to expectations, but I'm sure yours are fine. I do enjoy the comments and the feedback I get from you and they do make me think.
I don't think the tone of the class is not conducive, I just think the form of the class is not conducive. I'm learning just as much about myself as a learner as I am learning about media studies. One of the therapeutic techniques my old doctor used to make me do was to try to make myself aware of how I work best and then working to make the environment as distraction-free as possible. But on the interwebs, there is endless distraction ... and on classmates' blogs. If I can continue to "stray" to other people's work, I can keep myself engaged and learn something as well.
I'm pretty sure that anything that could be altered to accommodate me would do so to the detriment of my classmates and the depth we are attempting to get at in the readings. For me to operate best, I think a central location that does blogging, Ninging/D2L-ing, class calendar, etc, would be great, at least until I find a way to organize all these damn tabs. Otherwise, I think it's up to me to make my experience in this class more productive and efficient.
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