Blogging about blogging

Over the years I have had a pretty decent amount of experience with blogs.  Most of my experience comes from my Jr. High and High School English and history classes.  The way this whole process would work, would be my teacher would have blog already created on the topic we where learning about, or a book we where currently reading. We would then have to log onto our school website and responded to the blog at least three times per week. The topics ranged from specific questions to more open-ended question such as how do you feel about what is currently going on in Oliver Twist. These blogs help me gain a better understanding of what was being covered in class. It also desensitized me from other classmates. Meaning that I was not afraid to say what I was thinking or what others might think of me, because no one was there to judge me. They made the learning environment much more comfortable for me and I was able to see others views and understanding of what was being covered in class. It helped me more to see it in another classmate’s point of view than only just the teacher’s point of view. After we blogged our teacher would talk the following Monday in class on how the blog went and how he felt about our understanding of the questions being asked. This gave use a brief review of the material learned the previous week. From an educational stand point I felt that these where the best blogs because they helped the students see views of other students in their class. Also, since the teacher monitors this blog and the only students can put information on the blog, the information in there is not any kind of falsified facts. Also, since the teacher is running the blog, they can gauge their students understanding of the topic at hand and modify their lesson to help their students learn the information better.

         The bog that I read recently was very interesting to me. It just asked simple questions, for example this week’s question was if you could write a section of the newspaper what would it be and why. I looked at some of the responses and they where very brief and to the point. This is not what I expected; I expected at least 500 word answers. But then I thought about it, why would you give a complex answer to such a simple question? It just would not make sense. Blogs like he one that I viewed make you think outside the box and kind of give you a chance to image what it would be like to do certain things, like write a section of the newspaper. Blogs like this can strike imagination and reveal your inner self. Blogs can also give you a sense of what everyone is thinking in the would. The newspaper section blog hat I viewed had responses that we written in many different languages. It must be a great thing to be able to relate to someone who is thousands of miles away from you. I feel blogs like this kind of connect the world and give someone the feeling that they can relate or have the same ideas as other people all around the globe. 

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