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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Online Classes are cool beans.
Oh man, how I love online classes. Before, I used to think of them as classes that only geniuses take because it's hard to learn online without a teacher. But now after a couple of online classes, my mind changed. Drastically.
The teachers are always really nice to me and are just a phone call away. I know that some teachers are kind of hard to reach and some do not even answer their phone, but mine always seem to have been very easy to contact. Which is a plus for me! Haha. The first class I took online was Chemistry Honors. The reason I did that was because I was scared when I saw everybody struggling with chemistry in school and having a boatload of homework and tests. So, I decided to give virtual school a shot. I knew I had a month to quit if I didn't like it, but the truth is that I loved it.
At first, it seemed kind of confusing but once I got the hang of how to submit assignments, check grades, and go back to lesson pages when I take a test, I started to like it. You can cheat on any test really by having different tabs open of google and the lessons! However, you can't cheat on the assignments unless you find something online or someone else does the work for you. The truth is, I tried to cheat on the assignments for the first couple of chapters but then realized it was useless since YahooAnswers gave me the WRONG answers. Pretty ironic.
But anyway, I find it easy to learn because there are no distractions from the lesson like in a school classroom and you can work at your own pace since there are no due dates. Also, I like how you can re-submit assignments if you didn't like your grade in the first place.
ONE major CON is the DBA's. God, do I hate those. Sometimes, when I don't fully understand a chapter but somehow manage to get all the assignments done, I feel very insecure about the discussion based assessment. And what makes it worse is that the teacher always asks the things that I don't know. So I end up stalling by saying "Umm.." or "wait, I know this, haha...." as I hyperventilate and click on every lesson to find the answer to a topic that I don't even remember ever reading about in the course!!
But anyway, online courses are good. The end. :)
Have an awesome day, everyone!
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Ahh, I haven't had a DBA yet... but they sound scary. Especially since I don't read anything.....
ReplyDeleteI should have taken Chemistry online.
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