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Over the previous quarter, I've appreciated our readings and discussions immensely. I think something that really worked for me as a whole was reading Darwin himself before reading Dennett's work. This allowed me to formulate my own opinions and reactions to Darwin before interacting with Dennett's ideas. Like ewashburn and ckosarek, I think an aspect of the course that benefited our group as a whole was hearing from others what ideas we were considering for the first web paper.

However, because there is not as much interaction online as in our small groups, I would have liked to discuss our web papers again after they were written, to see where they took us and how they changed while we worked on them. Writing web papers continues to be a challenge for me. I'm still a little unsure of how to write with a more personal voice and to subjectively rather than objectively discuss topics. I think I succeeded a little better with my second paper, but it's a learning process. I think in future it might help me to use my web papers as a way of connecting my weekly posts.