Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Communicating Via Blog

In my opinion the blog assignment was actually interesting. It was an easy way to see what others thought about a specific subject or class activity and that was helpful because you could find out of other perspectives and/or points of view. I didn’t identify many of the bloggers but I did gather interesting ideas from some of them.

I enjoyed the class activities and feel that I got the message the professor was trying to get across with them, and I think the blog assignments helped reinforce the point of those activities.

Knowing that the management of the blog was worth 20% of the grade, or in other words as much as an exam, made me put some extra effort in it. If it wouldn’t have been so high of a percentage I probably wouldn’t have posted this on time. That was definitely a good motivation for all students to post on time and try to keep their blogs interesting.

For now I do not think I would continue posting anything in any blog. I think that if you want to post something worth reading to others, you have to dedicate good time to it, and I do not have much of that.

Finally, I do think the blog should remain as a component of the course. It will help the student understand subjects of the class better and even make new friends.