Efficient Blogging

Blogging was extremely useful for this management class. It was helpful in a sense that everyone was able to use this as a form of communication when we are outside of the classroom. Although we used blogging to communicate with each other, we never really talked inside the classroom unless we're doing groupwork. For me, I learned to talk to the people that sit around me, but I don't think I ever had any interaction with them through blogger.

This is the first and only class that required blogging as a percentage of our final grade. Honestly, I really hate writing. I've taken many classes where writing is involved and I expected this management class to have the same written assignments as well. What I was not expecting was that our written assignments would be on blogger. It was interesting because it felt more like free writing rather than something that was essay based. Blogging lightened the atmostphere of writing for this class.

Not only was blogging easy for this class, but it was easy for us to write about the topics that we were assigned. When writing a blog, we were forced to reflect and related each group activity to a theory or term. It was an effective way for us to learn and remember what Professor K had taught in class. Blogging really forced me to think back about what I had learn when I took the two exams during this semester. Blogging should definitely remain as one of the important compopnents of this course.

Though blogging may seem easy, it was extrememly tedious for me. I enjoyed writing a blog over another written assignment that other professors typically give and I really loved reading others' blogs, but I found the commenting portion really annoying. I understand that blogging serves as a communication channel for us, but it is really hard to comment about something that someone had mentioned in the blog. I'm not too expressive with my words, and I do not want the person to think that I am leaving a negative remark when that wasn't my intention. Another annoying thing about this blog is that we have to hand in a hard copy of everything. I didn't make a note of whose blog I was commenting on so I spent this week going back to every classmate's blog to find my comments.

Overall blogging was effective in expressing our thoughts about a topic and group activity, and it benefited ourselves because it serves as a great reference tool during an exam. I'm really not fond of using computer because I have to deal with it in most of my graphics classes, so I really didn't like paying attention to my blog. But I know that since this is for grading purposes, I had to check it every so often. When this class is over, I might not use this particular blog ever again, but I may create a new one my own personal journal.