Blog Yay or Nay

Blogging verse traditional essays was a nice change. As far as I am concerned it was a successful experiment. I really enjoyed the this form of submitting papers it is a way to save paper, as well as share my thoughts on the chosen topics. Apart from that there are several other reasons why I enjoyed these assignments.

The expectations for the blog assignments were basically the same as any traditional essay or paper I have ever had to write. The only differences were... 1)Verses having a works cited page we used hyperlinks. This was probably my favorite difference as far the blogs were concerned. I truly despise citing works in MLA format, it is just incredibly time consuming I would rather do a hyperlink any day. 2) Blogs allow the rest of the world to view your piece of work. That concept is a little mind boggling, but in a good way. Usually you sit down spend however long researching your topic, then spend another hour or more writing about it, you turn it in, and all that effort goes to just one person. I would much rather leave criticism to a group, With that being said I am positive that many other people dislike the idea of their writing being available to the world. The format overall was very basic which made it easy to understand. I think the most difficult part of this experience was figuring out how to work blogger but even that was not a big deal. Not to mention with how technologically advanced our society is becoming it is probably a good thing to learn blogging.

With that being said it is easy to see the parallel of the blogging assignments to the class in general. The class is all about critical thinking, and critical thinkers are why our society is becoming so involved with technology. New inventions are coming our all the time thanks to our modern day inventors. Furthermore the topics supplied to write about were all challenging in some way. There were no questions that you could simply rattle on about especially because of the hyperlink requirement. We also focused on forming arguments throughout the entire semester it is obvious that this relates to all of the blog assignments (seeing as we had to argue a topic in all of them).

Lastly the non text elements on Blogger really added to the learning process, Looking at other peoples blogs and seeing pictures or videos not only gave a better idea of the authors personality, it helped relay ideas that cannot be put in words. As I have argued in the past 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' Therefore by leaving the idea of adding visuals open to the class the opportunity to learn was broadened.

Overall this was a good experience. I give the blogging idea 2 thumbs up for future classes. It was a good way to learn, save trees, and share ideas.