I haven’t been commenting on the lectures as I feel that 30 odd slides cover it well enough! However, even tho I’m the only one who will propbably read this, I need to ‘vent’. The best thing about Fridays lecture was finding out that others are as annoyed by this course as I am, what does it have to do with Sociology? Why are we not introduced properly to concepts – like tagging – before we are required to tag? A simple explaination on friday as to 1) what is tagging 2) brief history 3) why it is important to us ) and 4) what was the objective WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL!! We turned up to the lab, were given a sheet which had as its first entry “look to the right of the page and you will see…”. First – what page, where are we? Are we via webct, wordpress? Then, is the page in our public or private blog. This sums up a lecturing style that is driving us all nuts: I know this info in Mary’s head and she has been living it forever and knows it backwards, but we don’t. I’m a 3rd year double major student with a GPA of 8.5 and I’m feeling stupid! I wish we could discuss the readings, find out what the others in the class know (so that a community of practice could happen naturally, not be a forced idea that is debated uselessly ad nauseum.)
