Reflections...

Working with blogger was a pretty cool experience. I honestly didn't know anything about it other than its existence in the Internet world. It was pretty easy to navigate and get control over. Its kind of like a myspace type of situation where you add certain things to make it your own. I really liked that aspect of it and the fact that it wasn't hard to do. I also really liked getting feedback from my peers. When I had felt as though I had done a good job, they were always there and very complimentary towards my work. I also like that when my work was a little off, they were honest enough to oppose some of my beliefs. Writing the blogs on blogger was easy. It beats having to write numerous papers or having quizzes every other class period. Although some of the topics were more difficult than others to write about, the use of the blogger made life easier. If one read the reading material, it was not difficult to write any entries. Blogger really reminds me of the old Microsoft works, where they make everything simple and idiot-proof. The minimum of 250 words was never an issue for me. I spoke about each and every topic until i felt my points were made clearly. I just figured it would always end up being around 250 words. At times it was a little difficult to meet the deadlines. Between the chunks of reading that had to be done, we also had to work on our papers, other projects, and deal with the workload from other courses. Blogging was easy to forget to do for me because it was all done online from my house. I think the deadline should be inforced but accepted late with a certain amount of penalties due to the. The 8:00 in the morning timing I think should be done away with completely because it is a little ridiculous. Especially since we don't have class anywhere near that time. If a person were to do the majority of their blogs on time, they may deserve a few extra points added onto their lower graded blogs. I really liked being forced to leave comments on the blogs of my peers as well. it forced me to read their work which is something I probably wouldn't have done on my own. But it turned out to be really enjoyable. It was also enjoyable to see how different people interpret different things. Blogging was mucheasier and much more convient than the more traditional forms of essay writing. I feel that blogger allowes more freedom of expression that wtiting essays does not. Even the writing prompt we had to do during the first few classes were painful, even though i was keeping upwith the readings. Umm, i have no idea what in the world i would blog about outside of schoolwork. I would never post my feelings on here or anything dealing with my personal life, so, im too cool for blogging.