Throughout this semester, we have used blogger to express our views of different management tools and exercises. It is not the first class for which I had to blog about my personal thoughts. Usually, professors just use the basic blackboard blogs, but setting up your own blog is definitely more entertaining. For one, you can customize your own blog with different layouts that help make one's blog distinguished from others.
I definitely feel as if the blogs helped to communicate better with our classmates. Every day that goes by it seems as though time is really becoming a commodity, especially at a commuter college like Baruch. The social life here is quite restricted, since students are either coming to/leaving class, going/coming from work, or going/coming from home. Everyone is really on their own schedule, so blogging allows us to read about our peers, who we may not otherwise ever get to know. Thus, it was definitely a benefit to learn about others, especially since the class has so many students.
Also, it is definitely a grade booster. Exams are definitely a huge part of the overall grade, but 20% being contributed to blogs is great. I honestly think we had enough time for each blog entry, as well as our comments to others.
In addition, having many classes throughout the week, we sometimes forget what exactly we did in class. The blog helps us to remember our in class activities and current topic of study.
I really think the blog portion of the grade should be kept the same. It will definitely benefit students who take time management seriously, which is something that is vital especially in the current day.
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Blogging really did help with communicating with our classmates...typically I would rarely share my thoughts about class, our assignments, ideas, etc. unless "forced to", but this blog has been a helpful tool in getting our ideas and criticisms across to our fellow students. I'm guessing this method of learning will one day be, if not already, standard in higher education.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I agree that the blogs were very helpful for our grades. What I am especially thankful to the professor for, (which you have mentioned) is the amount of time he gives us to complete each assignment. It technically is a homework assignment but instead of a few days to complete, we were given at least a week if not longer to do it. That was great!
ReplyDeleteI had the same first experience with blogging also. I didn't like blogging on blackboard and thought it was annoying. But this blogging experience was much more different. It was easier to write since we weren't really restricted on what to write.
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