Know your audience Analysis

This was a fun homework assignment. What I learned was there are 45 students who posted questions to the board and 1210 total posts. I was surprised by the number of students and the number of responses. It was a great way to get to know your fellow classmates and for our teacher to learn about each of us. The participation was staggering, I don’t know how our teacher will have time to read them all. The fact that there was an incentive of extra points if you answered all the questions was a good way to get us to respond to every post. I know it was for me, so I did and am happy I will get the extra points.

            I learned that there are more dog lovers than cat lovers. I liked Kelly Anthony’s question; what color is your attitude. The answer that surprised me was gray. I hadn’t even thought of it to describe myself. They used it to describe a neutral, calm, or sad way about themselves. I learned that a lot of my classmates’ favorite childhood memory was of a vacation. I wrote about my favorite and only vacation as a child. Since I wasn’t able to go on a lot growing up, I made sure we had lots of family outings with our children. We would go to parks, or the river if we didn’t have money to go on an expensive trip. Hopefully my children will remember all of these as good memories.

            Another good question was why are you going to OTC by Danielle. There were several different reasons for going to college or going back to college.  Some are wanting to get the basics out of the way before going to MSU. Others are just expanding their knowledge. They are going for different careers also, including; accounting, medical field, teacher, and social worker.

            In conclusion, we are all taking online classes at OTC to fill a need. It may be a need to get a class done for a degree or to further their career. Whatever the reason is, there is a discussion board for questions and we have online resources at OTC to help us get through it. We are a diverse group of men, women, young, and old, but we are group for this semester and we will be successful.