Bazinga! - Midterm Reflection

Alright, Media & Society! You want me to evaluate you? I'll evaluate you so good. As I typed that, this popped into my head.

So back to this reflection. During the first eight weeks, I have honestly learned a lot in Media & Society. The foundations of newspapers, television, radio, movies, and music. Something else I've learned that I find to be of extreme value is persuasive techniques. It would come in handy no matter the career field you wanted to pursue - politics or advertising or publishing, knowing that audiences respond to humor and warm fuzzies will give you the upper hand.

As a thinker, I've learned it takes me a little while to piece things together. When we do our grid quizzes in class, I can remember the power tools, but it always takes me a little time to connect the material to the video. As a reader and a writer, I am at ease with the material.

If I were to take Media & Society a second time, and get a mulligan on this semester, I think I would spend a little more time with the power tools. Just because I can remember the persuasive techniques no problem, I do struggle a little with the 8 shift and 7 perspectives.

Your class be rocking Dr. Dubs. 101 percent honest, I really enjoy your teaching style, the videos you show, your set up, all that jazz.

Usefulness of power tools, course blog, personal blog, class quizzes, films and books, come on down! You get to contend on the Price is Right!

I give the power tools, course blog, personal blog and films 5 whole stars! All fantastic. Make me critically think, work hard for information, examine what I'm learning. There is no regurgitation of facts, it is long term knowledge. All of these make me really examine media and what it says.

However, the in-class quizzes and text book get like, a good three stars. The book is good information but it's boring. It's like a hit and miss, occasionally it's really interesting, and other times chapters feel as boring and as dry and my grandmother's turkey. The problem I have with in-class quizzes is not that the text or media is boring; I really like the videos that we analyze. It's just that I feel like I just repeat the exact same power tools on every single quiz.

(Bob Barker, long time host of the game

show, The Price is Right.

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