What to like and what not to like

There were a few things I really like about taking this course that were different from other online courses I have taken in the past. The first thing is that I never got to do a blog in any other of my online classes. It felt kind of cool to have your own website that you could put your ideas on and that wa nice. The other thing I liked is being able to view other people's ideas on their blog. This was fun because you got to see a wide range of opinions on one subject. This creates a unique learning experience. Now to the things that could use some work.
I felt liek a lot of the assignments were very repetitive. All of the projects we had to do were about concept application. After doing a couple of the papers I felt like I had to try really hard not to repeat information i had in another assignment. Grading the journals was also something nthat didn't really fit for me. While it is interesting to grade the journals as we are sort of switching roles form student to professor, this is something that got fairly repetitive as well and really didn't feel like it enhanced my learning experience.

Cool Mediums

Cool medium is one concept that I don't really think I grasped in the course. The discussion about how television is a "cool" medium because it gives you so much information at once compared to like a newspaper or the radio, i guess confuses me. Is it because it stimulates more than one sense at once. I mean I don't get it.

Collectivism vs.Individualism

My favorite discussion in this course was probably individualism vs collectivism. It is a part of everyday life that here in America we are indivisualistic in the way we think and act. The media portrays a sense of individuality and it is looked upon in the community as well. Everybody wants to be their own person, but at the same time people get put into group listings and get put under categories. It would be crazy to think of a culture where individualism wasn't looked at as a primary way of viewing yourself and the world around you.
Collectivism is prcaticed in many Asian cultures and really focuses on the importance of the group primarily. This is something different to look at because this is simething we're not used to here in American culure. It would certainly be interesting to see more of a emphasis on the group here. There would be a backlash against that here because you always have people that argue against so called "socialist" views. Overall this is the concept in the course that has interested me most this semester.