It is the Mark of an Educated Mind to Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it...

I think that if I had taken colloquium my very first semester or second semester at FGCU I would have gotten more out of it. A lot of the stuff that we learned about I had gone over already in another class. I did like however that the class got students out of the classroom and in the environment, to me experience is everything especially when it comes to something like nature. You are not able to fully appreciate everything nature has to offer without going to it and seeing the extremely complex network of how everything works together.

The one complaint I have about the class would be how everything is online, I did not like the wiki and I did not like doing blogs. I feel like it takes up extra time for me to have to learn how to navigate the websites and possibly taking away from my grade because I am not as fluent as some with the capabilities of the sites. I feel like I could design a better journal in a notebook that I could hand write and draw in. I feel almost a disconnect from the class work by doing everything on the computer, I much prefer sitting with a journal and a book and hand writing something out. Times are changing though and I should probably just get used to the more computer based classes.


I absolutely loved "A Land Remembered", I am not gonna lie I judged it by its cover and did not plan on reading it at all, but once I started I honestly couldn't put it down. It will be a book that I keep and will re read again later in life I liked it that much. The Colloquium reading was painfully boring but educational...I guess.

As for suggestions regarding activities other than what I already stated about the computer I wouldn't really change anything. The class offered a variety of different learning techniques and did a very good job at keeping you engaged.
All in all this was an OK class.

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