Communication via Blog

Since the first day of Management class, Professor Kurpis told us that his goal for the semester was to get us to love management by teaching the class in an interactive and interesting manner. In my opinion, he has lived up to his word of making this course interesting by incorporating lively class lectures, in class activities, and finally this blog that we all have to write in. I have never had a blog prior to this course, be it as personal hobby or for school, but I feel that it is a creative way to encourage thinking and application of what we have learned throughout the semester. The blog assignments have been related to management concepts, but have also incorporated some personal factors that we have had to respond to and it has been interesting and fun to see other students' perspective on things as well as having them respond to my own. The blog has also served as a way for us to further use the information we've received from the class lectures. This blog has given us the opportunity to reflect on what we've learned and relate it to our own lives rather than just learn something and forget about it on the train ride home after class. There is obviously a lot about management that we cannot learn in one semester, however this blog has served as a learning tool about some of those aspects that we have not had a formal lecture about. Through Professor Kurpis' blog, we were able to learn more about management from a professional point of view as well as comment on his perspectives. On top of all the educational purposes that these blogs assigments have had throughout the course of the semester, it has also been the easiest 20% of a grade I've had. Studying for an exam is obviously tedious and there are some people who are just not good test takers and perform bad, but are very good students. This blog is a perfect way for students to control a chunk of their final grade simply by reflecting on management concepts and responding to the thoughts of others. Although I felt the blog assignment portion of our management class was beneficial to us in many aspects, I do not plan on continuing to write on it after the course has ended. However, if there ever comes a point in time where the interest of creating a personal blog arises, I will have had prior experiences with blogs because of this course. Professor Kurpis has done a great job of teaching management in a fun way rather than simply sitting in front of us for an hour and 15 minutes, twice a week, and lecturing about SWOT analysis and good leadership techniques, which we would all forget about hours later. The blog assignments are a great asset to his teaching style and our learning experience and I would recommend him to stick with it for his future classes.