Final Blog Post 🙁

I look back over the last 15 weeks and realize that what I thought "collaborative" work was not as bad as it really was. I thought I would dread it, but soon started to enjoy working with other people. It wasn't a formal affair, nor was it something so informal that no work got done. I found that it was super productive and beneficial to have several people offer suggestions on my work with several different ideas of what could be improved. 

The blogging experience itself was not as enjoyable as the collaborative in-class group work. I think that the groups for blogging were a little large. I think it would have been more effective to j
ust read the blogs of 2 or 3 other people, and be able to interact deeply with those people. It would allow deeper insight into their topic, and give you an opportunity to research specific aspects of their topics to give them more constructive feedback or questioning. I think in the future, blogging should be more frequent, but less content in each blog, more like a texting sort of feel. I thought that long blogs were difficult to digest, and most jumped around from idea to idea, and I know mine did too. If it was separated into more blogs, but with less information, it might help make the information easier to understand. 

In regards to the content, I learned quite a lot about topics that I had heard about before, but never really understood. With regards to the ethics, I knew about advanced directives, but didn't know about the nuances about each topic, from paternalism in PE to social determinants of health. The blogging assignment also made me look at different sources of information, such as figures and tables and images, instead of just text. These other sources of media can provide so much information so effectively. I would have liked the option to include images in our papers though, because it would be beneficial to know and understand how to make and use them within our future work. 

In the future, I don't know if I will continue to blog, but I will probably use some of the workshopping things in the future with others, even if we aren't writing about the same topics. I think that will help give another perspective on the topic from someone who isn't researching a similar topic, and whether I need to clarify information, or give background on other stuff. 

Anyways, thank you all for reading through my blog these past 15 weeks, and hope that you all have a great Winter break and Second Semester!!!

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