This semester in English 101 blogging gave me a chance to do something that I never thought I would have to do. I felt like a teacher writing a statement on the board and students commenting. Starting a blog was a great way to distinguish our class from other English 101 classes. Even if you were not a great writer and didn’t have a ton of insight, it gave us a way to look at how to analyze what you were reading in the Reader. I found it very interesting that we blog instead of talking in class so much. I did feel that we could have used a more better prompt, or website. Some students did not do their blogs because they either forgot, or felt that it was not worth their time. Using the Reader book was also an epic fail. I did not like it for blogging. Most blogs fail because; 1.) We get off track trying to blog about a long post that the teacher posted. 2.) We do not understand what is being asked. 3.) We lack focus. 4.) Students do not update their blogs, so we can not comment. Blogging was very difficult we should have used another method. We can try a different way of blogging to help the students get the blogging grade they need.
The Reader book was a big source that was necessary for blogging in this class. I did not like using the book, because the essays were not something you can automatically understand. It took more time to sit read, and understand this than to blog. Some students did not even have the book. This was a waste of time. The teacher could have used the journal post to do a blog instead of having a journal in a notebook in class. That just gave us an extra book to carry around, no matter how small or big it was.
When the teacher post a blog with a numerous amounts of questions, and a numerous amounts of parts to go along with the question a student tends to lose track. We can not keep up with they many questions a teacher ask, especially if we are having difficulty understanding what was read. A teacher posting a long blog tends to upset us if we do not understand, so we give up. Sometimes we do not understand what the teacher is asking, because we do not analyze what was read, or do not go over what we read. This can be another down fall of blogging.
Lacking focus is something all college students do. Focusing is a very challenging thing when you have a lot going on. Not reading the book, or not paying attention can cause us to focus less. We expect to get on the website, and it will automatically be easy for us. Being on the internet blogging is just giving us more time to face book, or twitter. We end up losing focus because we log onto other websites.
Some students feel that blogging is not a priority for that class, so they do not update their blogs on Wednesday. It is wasting time for those who do their blogs. We can not comment on other students blogs, and we do not get points for commenting on Friday’s . They are making us get a bad grade because they do not post blogs. I do not think that this is fair.
We should have used a different method of blogging. I would suggest face book. Everyone uses face book and it is just like commenting on a blog. People spend more time on face book than doing homework anyways. This would have been a better and easier way of doing things. We would not have to worry about the letters that we have to type for verification before posting a blog. We would not have to worry about creating a new username, email, and password. We would not have to worry about confirming comments from peers. Face book is also faster we do not have to keep going back and look at the question in another window. We can comment as we go.
We could even talk about it with other students from other classes, instead of just commenting on three people from our group. That would help us better understand. Follow a blog was also a problem for me. On face book all we have to do is add that person as a friend you can see their bio, and even more. face book blogging is a great suggestion.
There are different methods of blogging instead of using Blogger.com. I think it would be better if we tried a different method/website. It would be helpful, and the students grades would improve for the blogging points. Using something students are used to would give a student a better chance. Blog post can be a failure in many ways.
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