Final blog post
I think that the two decisions to have non-required attendance and soft deadlines had impacts on myself and the class as a whole, both direct and indirect. Making attendance not required is almost guaranteed to change how certain students approach the class. For me personally, the decision to not have required attendance allowed outside circumstances (job interviews, meetings/appointments, etc.) to have a greater impact in my decision to attend. If attendance were required (therefore impacting my grade in the class), I would have had to plan these outside commitments around the 9:30-10:50 a.m. time slot. Since my schedule is already pretty full with my on-campus job, if it was convenient for me (and for the other party – i.e, those who were interviewing me) I would tend not to reschedule if they selected a time that overlapped with our class. This happened on a couple occasions, but I always made an effort to let you know beforehand. From the class perspective, obviously not having r...