The world of blogging

The blog has definitely been an interesting and unique assignment for this class. I don't think there have been any other classes that required anything of the sort in my whole school career. I really enjoyed it in the very beginning when I had more time and when I had to write about challenging topics to examine myself and come up with plans. Those were extremely useful exercise that I am sure to benefit in the future. In general, this is my first real blog with weekly posts that I've been posting on consistently. It is nice to see my collective work in the end of the semester and I think I'll start my own blog after the semester is done.

In terms of the topics, I do feel like they were forced - blogs are usually more freestyle expressing my ideas first off. But I do understand that if we were to go about writing whatever we felt like the blog will not be educational in the least.

The blog surely offered an opportunity to communicate with others and understand other students much better. Judging people's inner thoughts, writing style and dedication to the assignment pointed out some interesting students in class that otherwise I might not have communicated with.

In terms of improving the assignment I feel like it might be worth to increase the amount of professor's posts and encourage students to blog on the same topic that professor has posted in addition to comments. Maybe a forum or some kind of group page might be useful to really facilitate group discussion. Comments are good but at times they are forgotten. Forums with their dynamic nature let you develop conversation and track all of the answers/questions. Plus, students will be more compelled to defend their points when they are challenged in front of the whole class.

Well that's about it for this blog unless I get some interesting management ideas and come back to the assignment. I'll post the next blog's name in the next post.

Cheers! It was a pleasure having you