Reflect on and write about your learning, growth, and engagement throughout the CSC290 course.  What have you learned? How have you engaged in the course? How have you grown as a professional, a computer scientist, an academic, and a communicator?  Be specific and provide examples/evidence of your learning, growth, and engagement.  Consider the original intent and purpose of this engagement assignment.

Reflect on the video recordings of your presentation.  Did you observe anything interesting about your presentation that you may not have noticed while presenting?  Did you look as scared/confident as you felt when you were presenting?  What other interesting observations do you note from the recording?

What was the most significant thing you learned this term in CSC290 so far? Your answer should be specific and your blog post should be focused.  Don’t write about what you learned in general.  Pick the most significant thing.  The most significant thing you learned does not have to be related to communication skills or course topics. The most significant thing you learned can be something you learned on your own, in tutorial, through related research, etc.  What you learned could be something about communication skills, about your learning style, about your organizational skills, about the tech industry, etc.

Reflect on the lectures/tutorials on team work/group work and communication techniques for working with others (eg. perception check, “I” statements, guest lecturers).  Did you find the activities and materials to be helpful in preparing and in dealing with the group work in this course? Why or why not?  In what ways have you used the materials taught in your group work?  Can you suggest other topics and/or activities that would have helped you? Did you find yourself lacking the right skills in dealing with certain group situations that you’ve encountered?  What was the situation that was challenging? What did you wish you had known? Did you find the guest lecturers and their ‘lecture’ helpful?

Browse through your classmates’ blog posts. Respond to/comment on a post of interest. The post of interest may be one that you disagree with, one that reminds you of something else related to the course, or one that you can relate to in some way. Explain why the post was interesting to you, along with your response to the post The post of interest may also be one that you agree with. In which case, you may explain why you agree or you may add supporting ideas.

Reflect on the two-stage test format.  If this is your first time having a test in this format, what did you think of it?  In what was was it or was it not effective?  What did you like or not like about it?  If you’re had a two-stage test before, in what ways was this experience different?  How do the two experiences compare?