The things about Unit II that I am most proud of was my lab project until I posted it. It looked great before I uploaded it!!! I am also happy that I completed all the assignments. That is always a great accomplishment when things are done!! The last thing I am proud of is that you can actually see all of my pictures and don't have to put your nose to the screen.
Would I make any improvements?? Umm, sure there is always room for improvement. I will always say that I have a hard time putting things into words, but I do my best. I am still trying to get use to the "blog" thing and I will probably have it mastered right before this class ends!!
My overall grade should reflect the quality of my work. I believe with completing the assignments shows that I care about the dead line and want it to be right! I think I put a lot of effort into any work I do, so I guess I feel deserving of a good grade.
In the next unit I could do better by reading the lab project thoroughly before I start it. I didn't think that this one was going to be a lot of work, but it was. The one on the first unit was too, but being in the medical field I saw that we had to do blood pressure and stuff like that so I wasn't really concerned.
I felt most engaged with the circulatory system. I think that it is so fascinating!! Actually all of the chapters were great. Genetics is not my thing but getting into the systems in the body is what I enjoy the most.
I don't think I ever felt distanced from the course because I am busy trying to get the work done. I get nervous knowing the due date is around the corner.
What I found helpful in this particular unit was all the extra web sites that the instructor made available. It is always helpful to have more information.
I didn't find anything puzzling. I think Unit II was a great refresher for me!
The thing that surprised me about this Unit was doing the lab exercise. I have been working out since I was in my teens and when I saw some of the blood pressure and pulses readings it made me a little nervous. My blood pressure has always been great. When I did some of the exercises and then took my blood pressure and pulse, I was surprised how high they were. I know when we did stress test in the doctors office I worked in the patient had to reach a certain target rate(pulse) for their age. I think during my lab project my pulse was a little too high.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
SELF EVALUATION UNIT II
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Bonnie, Great work on this unit. I really don't know where I could ask you to do more. You show a great command of the subject, you put it all together in great blog entries that look nice and are so very complete. What else can I say?
Your lab project is just beautiful—I know in your self-eval you were frustrated about how it loaded...I'm sure the graphs cut off is what you mean...but I could see most of it and you did such a great job getting your data, graphing it, and then telling us what it means. I wouldn't be too alarmed about where your blood pressure goes after exercise...it's supposed to go up. Remember this is just a fun experiment for bio class—not a way to try and diagnose your health state—leave that to the pros, I guess.
I liked your essay, too...yes it is tiresome to hear what the media constantly has to say. I like the Michael Pollan essay for that reason and I agree that the farm to school is a great idea also. I guess anything in excess is bad, like you say.
Your compendiums are outstanding—in your self eval, you say you have trouble expressing yourself in words, but you do a great job and write a lot, going into depth on many topics. You give a nice table of contents, the compendiums are well-organized, you select great graphics and give the sources—way to go! I thought your oxygen/blood/immune compendium was especially complete.
Your two online labs are also really perfect—were you unable to get a screen shot of the nutrition calculator—it looks like you just typed in the info, which is fine. You were below the daily max on sodium which is almost unheard of...I wonder how you did it! I know that your graphs got cut off again..you might try posting them as a small or medium image size...maybe that will get all the image in there, but no big deal...I can see what I need to by clicking on the image and then it opens up full screen.
Keep up the great work!
LF
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