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Patterson, DeAnna Rose. "A History of Three African-American Women Who Made Important Contributions to Music Education Between 1903 and 1960." OhioLINK ETD Center. Bowling Green State University and OhioLINK, June 2011. Web. 4 Sept. 2011. .

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Group Presentation and Class peresentations

Our group presentations was very challenging for me. I haven't always been a sociable person which is something the group presentation helped me get away from. I learned that working in a group setting requires much organization and communication.
Watching other groups presentations also helped me observe what one was suppose to act like during a presentation and also what one was not suppose to act like. I tried to also carry that into my part of our group presentation but my fear of public speaking took over.
As for my group members, i believe that they each presented very well and also did a great job on their part of the research. Coming up with a question and investigating it did not seem very hard for us to do as a whole.
The other groups in my class choose very interesting topics and did a very good job of conducting their investigations. I especially enjoyed the one about how black people were portrayed in movies. This is a topic i have thought about for a while and i was very glad to see that i wasn't the only one concerned.
The research process was very useful and our teacher guides were also very helpful. I am glad that this was apart of our freshmen seminar experience.

End of semester Reflection

Freshman seminar was an overall good experience. I learned a lot from the many lectures we had about African Americans and about our history. I gained more knowledge than i would on the news due to the fact that they don't really go deep into some issues.
Writing the blogs  also helped me to take time out of schedule to reflect on what i understood from the lectures and it also gave me motivation to stay awake and pay attention during every lecture section.
One thing really affected me was the African burial ground and how buildings were built on top of such a hostirical part of our history. And it wasn't like they had no clue, they knew what they were doing. Had that been the graves of white ancestors, the issue would have never arose in the first place.
Freshman seminar was very helpful to me and i am greatly appreciative of gaining knowledge that i believe will help me throughout life.Entering college, i was never fully aware of African American achievements or of current associations used to help African Americans such as the LEAP program. However, now i feel that i am more aware of these types of things.