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Colleen McGilpin EDSP376 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/14/2024	I love Colleen. She is a great teacher- I have learned so much from her. She is so sweet and understanding. I have had problems with assignments and she will extend the due date. If she was teaching ASL 2 I would 100% take her class again. The homework and exams are easy if you pay attention in class, it is not a hard class at all.
Elizabeth Martinez EDSP376 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/18/2024	This is an ONLINE class. The professor doesn't teach and you are on your own in this course. The workload isn't too terrible. Although, I thought the curriculum could have been better and the professor doesn't teach anything, other watching her YouTube videos. Also, she is pretty slow to respond to emails. The course itself is easy and there is no time limit on tests/quizzes. Professor is based in Tennessee if I recall correctly. If you're just looking for an easy A class, this might be for you, but if you really want to learn and engage, stick with in person classes.
Elizabeth Martinez EDSP376 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/15/2024	she was so sweet and really tried to make the class entertaining. i had it online so we met once a week on zoom, but since she is deaf herself, there is never any talking on the zooms so it is completely silent. you mainly just follow along with her powerpoints and also do some practice activities in breakout rooms, which were usually very awkward. the class was really cool though and it was fun to learn some parts of the ASL language, although i feel like every week we sort of kept moving forward and rarely reviewed terms from the past, which was sort of difficult. i got through the assignments and tests just fine, with a lot of help from the online textbook.
Elizabeth Martinez EDSP376 Anonymous 01/11/2022	Rating doesn't reflect the instructor, but more so the class. Can't honestly give her a rating because she wasn't really our instructor. This was a self-paced, self-taught, asynchronous course. I came in with some knowledge of ASL and hated every minute of this class. I rushed through it just to get it done. Luckily my daughter is interested in ASL so I could practice with her. 99% of the course was done through True+Way ASL using their curriculum. They open by preaching about immersion and practicing with others, but it's a ****ing online course. Do not take this class if it is online. Sign up for an ASL class through MCCC or in person. I'll get he credits and probably be happy to get the requirement done, but I regret taking this class.
Michael Dunham EDSP376 Anonymous 03/10/2021	I took this class during Fall 2020 when it was online due to covid. Michael was always very friendly and considerate of different signing paces and receptive to any feedback. The course material was taught via short pre-recorded lecture videos. These videos are completely in ASL and don't have captions or voiceovers, but most of the time his facial expressions and pictures/animations make the meanings pretty clear. You do have to be pro-active if there's anything you don't understand, and that means either emailing him separately or asking a question during the live class. But, he encourages people to interrupt and ask what signs are, so it's totally okay if you don't understand the video lectures entirely. There were live classes for 1-hour once a week. On Testudo, it shows up as two sessions a week, but before the semester starts, he lets you pick one of three times that meet once a week in smaller groups (not sure if this was just because of the online format or not). These live classes were fully immersive, so everyone was muted and any questions would be asked via chat. He would prepare some sort of activity that involved using signs taught in the previous week's lecture videos in order to practice them and gauge comprehension. There was never too much pressure to know every sign beforehand, because, as I mentioned, it was completely okay to be reminded of the signs or even learn new signs by just asking. Overall, Michael really cares about helping students learn the material, and this is a great class to take with him if you're interested in learning some basic ASL directly from someone in the deaf community.
Michael Dunham EDSP376 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/26/2021	I took EDSP376 online over the winter. The main content of the course is taught through recorded lectures, and there are biweekly synchronous lectures with some basic participation activities. We didn't have any exams but there were a few untimed quizzes and homework assignments, as well as an easy final project. It's intended to be a "full immersion" class so there's no speaking in class or in the recorded lectures. That's not really a problem though, since he's patient and writes what he's signing in the zoom chat, and the videos have pictures to describe whatever he's talking about. It's rarely, if ever, unclear. There was only about an hour or two of recorded lectures a week (not bad for a 3-week class) so it's pretty easy to rewatch them before/during a quiz. Overall, it's an easy class if you put in literally any effort at all and you'll probably have a bit of fun with it too. He was good about responding to emails (despite what the other reviewer says) and other concerns. Easy five stars.
Elizabeth Martinez EDSP376 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/18/2020	I took EDSP376 with her over Summer2020 and she is awesome. There is not a ton of work and the work is pretty straightforward. Before I graduate, I want to take EDSP476 with her if she ever teaches it during the fall or spring.
Michael Dunham EDSP376 Anonymous 01/12/2020	Do not take this class if you do not have to and do not trust the data for this professor. The class is extremely unorganized and moves at a way too fast pace. The professor is horrible about responding to emails and is always MIA. If you want to take a class where you get the review packets the night before a test and can never get in contact with the professor then this is the class for you.

Colleen McGilpin
EDSP376

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/14/2024

I love Colleen. She is a great teacher- I have learned so much from her. She is so sweet and understanding. I have had problems with assignments and she will extend the due date. If she was teaching ASL 2 I would 100% take her class again. The homework and exams are easy if you pay attention in class, it is not a hard class at all.

Elizabeth Martinez
EDSP376

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/18/2024

This is an ONLINE class. The professor doesn't teach and you are on your own in this course. The workload isn't too terrible. Although, I thought the curriculum could have been better and the professor doesn't teach anything, other watching her YouTube videos. Also, she is pretty slow to respond to emails. The course itself is easy and there is no time limit on tests/quizzes. Professor is based in Tennessee if I recall correctly. If you're just looking for an easy A class, this might be for you, but if you really want to learn and engage, stick with in person classes.

Elizabeth Martinez
EDSP376

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/15/2024

she was so sweet and really tried to make the class entertaining. i had it online so we met once a week on zoom, but since she is deaf herself, there is never any talking on the zooms so it is completely silent. you mainly just follow along with her powerpoints and also do some practice activities in breakout rooms, which were usually very awkward. the class was really cool though and it was fun to learn some parts of the ASL language, although i feel like every week we sort of kept moving forward and rarely reviewed terms from the past, which was sort of difficult. i got through the assignments and tests just fine, with a lot of help from the online textbook.

Elizabeth Martinez
EDSP376

Anonymous
01/11/2022

Rating doesn't reflect the instructor, but more so the class. Can't honestly give her a rating because she wasn't really our instructor. This was a self-paced, self-taught, asynchronous course. I came in with some knowledge of ASL and hated every minute of this class. I rushed through it just to get it done. Luckily my daughter is interested in ASL so I could practice with her. 99% of the course was done through True+Way ASL using their curriculum. They open by preaching about immersion and practicing with others, but it's a ****ing online course. Do not take this class if it is online. Sign up for an ASL class through MCCC or in person. I'll get he credits and probably be happy to get the requirement done, but I regret taking this class.

Michael Dunham
EDSP376

Anonymous
03/10/2021

I took this class during Fall 2020 when it was online due to covid. Michael was always very friendly and considerate of different signing paces and receptive to any feedback. The course material was taught via short pre-recorded lecture videos. These videos are completely in ASL and don't have captions or voiceovers, but most of the time his facial expressions and pictures/animations make the meanings pretty clear. You do have to be pro-active if there's anything you don't understand, and that means either emailing him separately or asking a question during the live class. But, he encourages people to interrupt and ask what signs are, so it's totally okay if you don't understand the video lectures entirely. There were live classes for 1-hour once a week. On Testudo, it shows up as two sessions a week, but before the semester starts, he lets you pick one of three times that meet once a week in smaller groups (not sure if this was just because of the online format or not). These live classes were fully immersive, so everyone was muted and any questions would be asked via chat. He would prepare some sort of activity that involved using signs taught in the previous week's lecture videos in order to practice them and gauge comprehension. There was never too much pressure to know every sign beforehand, because, as I mentioned, it was completely okay to be reminded of the signs or even learn new signs by just asking. Overall, Michael really cares about helping students learn the material, and this is a great class to take with him if you're interested in learning some basic ASL directly from someone in the deaf community.

Michael Dunham
EDSP376

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/26/2021

I took EDSP376 online over the winter. The main content of the course is taught through recorded lectures, and there are biweekly synchronous lectures with some basic participation activities. We didn't have any exams but there were a few untimed quizzes and homework assignments, as well as an easy final project. It's intended to be a "full immersion" class so there's no speaking in class or in the recorded lectures. That's not really a problem though, since he's patient and writes what he's signing in the zoom chat, and the videos have pictures to describe whatever he's talking about. It's rarely, if ever, unclear. There was only about an hour or two of recorded lectures a week (not bad for a 3-week class) so it's pretty easy to rewatch them before/during a quiz. Overall, it's an easy class if you put in literally any effort at all and you'll probably have a bit of fun with it too. He was good about responding to emails (despite what the other reviewer says) and other concerns. Easy five stars.

Elizabeth Martinez
EDSP376

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/18/2020

I took EDSP376 with her over Summer2020 and she is awesome. There is not a ton of work and the work is pretty straightforward. Before I graduate, I want to take EDSP476 with her if she ever teaches it during the fall or spring.

Michael Dunham
EDSP376

Anonymous
01/12/2020

Do not take this class if you do not have to and do not trust the data for this professor. The class is extremely unorganized and moves at a way too fast pace. The professor is horrible about responding to emails and is always MIA. If you want to take a class where you get the review packets the night before a test and can never get in contact with the professor then this is the class for you.

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