U-Blog 3

I have always wondered if there was a difference between formal and informal learning. For years I have been involved with companies and have experience several changes within that company. These changes could consist anywhere from adding a new product to adding an new procedure to a process; however working with several different types of people I have wondered how do a company make such a big decision on approaching training in a timely fashion to where alot of workers would catch on while preventing down time. Reading an article called Informal Reading states that formal and informal are very much similar and that they co-exist. Even though in our past companies has been using formal approaches to learn that it has caused such a big confusion between schooling and learning.

U-Blog 2

What can I say, this class has delivered an very unique experience unlike any others. TSTM 444's curriculum is very demanding and in order to succeed, a person has to be well-organized and possess great time-management skills.

I am a person with strong visual skills; if I can put a face to your name then I will remember quicker and easier than seeing your name on piece of paper or if I see and example on the board I can remember and apply it better than if a professor tried to explain it verbally. Giving myself a challenge, I decided to accept the "complete online" version of the class. Knowing I have done better by going to class on daily basis, taking it online will increase my flexibility. So far I believe I have done well. I have tried to keep up with announcements and updates. Its shocking to say that my grade depends upon how often I can access a software on a daily basis. WOW!!!!

The biggest challenge of all is being able to succeed through our class project. Not able to initially meet my teammates physically is really different for me. Having to depend on whether my teammates will see the inportance of checking Blackboard on a daily basis is something I am not comfortable with, but have to have faith I guess. I actually had one member to state that he wanted to go through this whole project online. So I am thinking WOW that eliminated meeting in the library one good time!!! On the positive note, I do have some dedicated people on the team. People that want to put forth efforts to bring success to the project. Hopefully over time we will continue to become and very dominate team over the internet...