Blogging in the Classroom

Since I never kept a diary or blog, nor was I ever a big fan of writing assignments, my initial impressions upon hearing of the required blog assignment was that it was going to be a tedious chore. In retrospect, I genuinely enjoyed the task as it prompted me to reflect on the in class activities. Without the responsibility of blogging about what we did in class that day, I can’t honestly say I would have thought about the activity much once I stepped foot out of the classroom. However, since I had the time and inclination to reflect on the “mini projects” I became more conscious of their worth and practicality in the real world.
Also, I felt that the class activities, along with the blog reflections, were great ways for the students to collaborate and share ideas. In typical classrooms, especially one as big as ours, student to student interaction is very limited. I rarely know anyone’s name as the structure of the class genuinely follows the traditional point (professor) to multi-point (students) communication style. With the blog’s and the genuine style the class was run (frequent group activities) it felt as though everyone has know each other forever, especially your group members, who became like family towards the end of the semester.
I definitely appreciated that fact that I was in control of 20% of my grade. It was surely refreshing to know that I had straightforward ways of boosting my grades especially since the tests were so demanding. Overall, I am surely an advocate of this blogging system and recommend you stay with it in your future classes.