I thought your generation loved to answer polls.
I am a bit surprised about the low rate or responses to my polls.
Are my questions off the wall?
Please, submit your suggestions for new polls.
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Honestly, I noticed polls a little late. They are on the wall. I can see that most of the students find this course challenging and though like myself. I wonder which book students like most "Son of Italy" or "Christ in Concrete"?
ReplyDeleteThat would be a good poll – favorite of the four books.
DeleteNow that we have finished the first part of the semester, I think a good poll for everyone would be a midterm evaluation. Is the class less, greater, or equal to what everyone expected?
ReplyDeleteI think it would be interesting to see what people thought the class would be and if the texts we learned fit into that model.
I agree. A midterm poll would be interesting. It would also be satisfying to say that technically the midterm exam was a poll (facetiously, of course).
DeleteI've answered all of the polls, but I wouldn't say that its something I love doing. I also wouldn't say that your questions are off the wall; they are very relevant to the class content. My apathy towards the polls has more to do with the fact that they are predictable. They are mostly feedback questions, like the kind I would expect to find on the BC Feedback questionnaires (if they were class-specific) we get at the end of each term.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, your polls are not at all off the wall. I actually think that some of your answer choices are really funny. I've answered all of the polls.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the reason that we love to answer polls is because they are fun and easy. These polls seem more like a course evaluation form (albeit with funny answer choices). I think if you put up some random, fun polls, then we would all be inclined to keep answering all of them.
Interesting: each new poll I tried to be less and less cute because I thought maybe that is what was annoying the class, to the point that the last one, on songs, was like sugarless plain vanilla.
ReplyDeleteRe a poll as midterm: OK with me, but youze guys must come up with the options/questions or - if you leave to me, you may end up being mercilessly manipulated by my devious, evil agenda.
I enjoy polls and have answered all of them. I think the humor should be kept in the options as it was funny and entertaining (and the more options the better I believe).
ReplyDeleteI've answered all the polls and thought they were relevant. I'm not a fan of polls as I find that they limit what I have to say.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the polls limit what we want to say. So maybe at the end of the semester, you can give a general survey that allows us to write more about our opinion about the class.
DeleteI agree that the polls are limited and don't contain the bulk of what we have to say. I think they are a good contrast to the blog posts where we can pour out our opinions.
DeleteThat’s what is good about polls; they limit what people have to say. I know that some people (myself included) would go on and on and on, and polls help hinder this.
DeleteIn my opinion, it's not that the questions are off the wall, it's just that sometimes I don't notice them. Sometimes I'm so busy answering the blog posts that I don't pay attention to them, or if I do I forget to come back and answer them. I honestly don't think that there should really be polls now. Rather, there should be a survey at the end of the semester that includes some of these poll questions, along with others to sum up the class in general, as well as our opinions about the materials that you provided.
ReplyDeleteI answered all the polls though on the one regarding L'emigrante I remember thinking to myself that I didn't exactly agree with any of the answers so I picked the one that I least disagreed with. Personally, I like the polls because I am always curious to see other people's views on texts / screenings that I read / watched.
ReplyDeleteI think the polls are a good way to gauge the materials being used and the classes feelings to those materials. I think the polls fail because they are nothing more than statistics, and do not venture into opinions. I think one way to make the polls more gauging is to ask questions about specific characters or themes instead of the materials as a whole compared to each other.
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