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 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:03 am
In at least 2 of my classes this semester, the professor is requiring that we write reflective journals of our experiences in the class throughout the semester. We've got to write a lot about our personal goals and if those goals were reached or not. I don't mind writing them, but how can a teacher give a grade on a personal reflection? Your opinion cannot be right or wrong. Perhaps the teacher just wants it as more of a check-in type thing, to see the progress we've all been making? Maybe she'll grade it on our grammar...
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:11 am
|~*^.[Jay].^*~|
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<[Reflective journals are fun, but...how does one grade them? O.o]>
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...[Shadow was here]...
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:17 am
*shrug*
Honestly, I don't think that one of my teachers really cares too much about what we write. As long as we mention our goals, she gives us a 95 (which converts to an A grade).
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:04 am
Normally this sort of exercise is more for you to see where you are in whatever course of study you are. It will also highlight what you're getting out of the class in a very subversive psychological way, if you ask me.
Technically it's a tool to see how you think, and what you think about the material you're doing. If it's bland, or not very involved, the reader will know you don't have a vested interest...or if you are paying attention.
Supersekritstealthteachers!
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:02 pm
.[;dundun.
I have been graded on my opinion before.
The SATs tests always have an opinion thing at the end. For two points or something. But how can you grade that? THESE TEACHERS KNOW THINGS WE DON'T.:].
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:27 pm
Take Me Out .[;dundun.
I have been graded on my opinion before.
The SATs tests always have an opinion thing at the end. For two points or something. But how can you grade that? THESE TEACHERS KNOW THINGS WE DON'T.:]. For SAT they don't care what you write. They care that you can write something that makes sense, and has a direct correlation to planning out an essay based on making a point, and supporting it. Plus, you have to do it all while remaining grammatically correct. *shrugs* That's all that is. Nothing sekrit!
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:57 pm
I don't even keep a regular journal...hm.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:15 pm
I love my journal. It is one of my most loved possessions. Even if I don't have an actual journal, as long as I have a spiral bound notebook, I'm good to go.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:30 am
I don't journal. I'm really private most times about things one would probably write in a journal...so it's better that no one else have accidental access.
I did try to LJ for a time, but I'm a miserable failure at it. *laughs*
I haven't even caught up with the friends I meant to watch using it.
sad
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:15 am
I gave up on my Xanga long ago.
Sometimes I post in my gaia journal, but that's never anything uber-private.
I like to write things down because if I keep things inside for too long they tend to explode.
So I just write, get it out, and forget about it for a while until I can go back and think clearly again.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:46 pm
I usually write in my xanga because no one I know uses it. I don't like it when people know my thoughts. D:
I usually write journals on deviantart, gaia, myspace, xanga, and in this spiral notebook under my bed.
D: I r journal whore.
I hate reflecting on myself for a teacher, though. I usually BS them with things I know they'll want to hear. D:
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:11 pm
Hehe well...you know a secret, Lobby? That's the same skill you'll need to get on in most of the ebil that is the business world when you get out.
Keep on trucking.
<#
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:26 pm
I finished one of two reflective journals today because I had no classes. Yup, that's right. Blossom was a lazy arse today.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:28 pm
I don't "journal" either. (Nor am I a big fan of making nouns into verbs, but oh well. It's more succinct than saying it any other way.) I think it's basically for the same reason that I don't take a lot of photographs when I'm on a trip or at a special event: I lived through it. I don't want to record it and relive it later. I truly don't think I'd be interested in writing down in detail what I do and feel because frankly, it's pretty dull, and I think getting through it once is plenty. Maybe 20 years from now, if I'm still around, it might be interesting to remember how I felt on a typical work day, but probably not. I guess one of the sad things about getting older is that the drama goes out of your life and that's OK. But ... that's also a relief.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:08 pm
I rarely ever actually go back and reread my journal.
There's just something about getting it out that helps my stress level go down.
It doesn't matter who hears it or who doesn't hear it.
As long as I can vent in some way, I'm content.
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