My Views on Blogging

When I first heard that we had to make a blog page for class I was not too thrilled with the idea. I had to do a blog before for an english class i took at MSU in which we were required to make one post every week, and I really struggled to think of things to post each week. However, I am really enjoying the way in which the blog is used in this class. I like the way in which we are only required to write a specific number of blogs, not a weekly blog, becuase there are some weeks when there are more ideas I would like to explore then other weeks. I think it is interesting to see all of the views that others have about similar topics and that the blogs are a way to continus the discussions that we have in class, and to bring up new ideas that may have come up after the discussions happened. I really like the way that the class blog has announcements for class related material and this really allowed me to see the ways in which blogging could be useful in the classroom setting. I began to think about the ways to use blogs as a future teacher I could use blogs to communicate with parents, and ways that the children could make posts on the classroom blog as well. I think that the ways in which blogging allows people to communicate and share ideas is wonderful and I am really enjoying the experience I am having with blogging thus far, becuase I am now able to see it as a beneficial tool as opposed to a burdenson assignment that i previously viewed blogging as.