Blogging – it's not a real word

When the assignment of writing a blog came up, I was very excited. This gave me a chance to write my thoughts and tell the readers about my different experiences. This was definitely fun.
It was really interesting to read about other student’s thoughts and ambitions. However, not many of the students put pictures in their blogs so it was really hard to know whose blog I’m reading. And even if they did put a picture, I don’t really know them so their post didn’t mean much to me. However, when I read the blog’s of students that sit around me in class or ones that I worked in groups with, it was much easier to relate the story to the person and comment on it.
The blog assignments definitely provide a way for thinking of the activities we did in class and you really get a better understanding of what each module was about. That said, I like talking and getting immediate feedback and be able to answer back; in real life conversation it is easy and the adrenalin rushes through your body. In the blog you lose much of that effect and when people do respond they write whatever they want, sometimes not even relating it to what you wrote.
In addition, I felt that some of the assignments were a little to personal. For example, the second assignment was about goals that we want to achieve; sometimes our most important goals are very interesting but also very personal - at least too personal to share it with a class of 100 students that you don’t know (especially not in the 2nd week of class).
These assignments definitely made it easy to take control of 20% of the grade. They were not difficult to accomplish and they were very fun to do.
I’ll concluded by saying that I would have never thought of starting a blog if it wasn’t for this class. I believe that I will keep on using it.