Hail to the Victors

Blogging on blogging…

This is a rather long post, so bear with me...

How it helped me learn:
Blogging helped me to learn in three ways. First, blogging really forced me to stay on top of what was going on in class. It’s easy to let a class slide at certain times of the year when other classes get hectic, but having to blog twice a week meant that you couldn’t neglect this class for too long. Secondly, when I would start off writing a question post, I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of what the answer was. Then, about half way through trying to phrase the question, the answer would end up clicking in my head. Finally, having to articulate really complex concepts in ways that other people would understand really reinforced what I had learned. 


Promoting class interaction:
In terms of promoting class interaction, I felt that blogging was at its best when people engaged in the same conversations via trackbacks and linking to other blog posts.  It is always exciting to see how other people agree with or challenge the thinking behind your posts.  Furthermore, many people asked questions that a lot of other people had, but never blogged about. Therefore, blogging was valuable in the sense that it really promoted knowledge sharing in real time. It was also great the Professor Gibson always replied back so quickly.

 
Suggestions:
I thought that the two posts of week were a fair request. My only suggestion would be to add another section to the blog where people could write about whatever was of interest to them outside of Information Business for maybe 5 of the total required semester posts. I think that we might learn some interesting things about people in the class this way, such as their hobbies, interests, and activities.

 
Course Website:
In terms of the course website, it was set up in a way that made me feel that I was always up to date on what was going on in class.  The links to the articles and handouts for the day made everything very intuitively organized. I definitely can’t say this for my other classes, where it would take a ridiculous amount of time to find lecture slides and project requirements that were intermingled in CourseTools and CTools.


FeedReaders:
I really, really, really liked Sage. It made keeping up with other blogs in the class so much more bearable.  Before Sage, reading everyone’s individual pages and trying to decipher between new and old content was very cumbersome.  Sage was a blessing.

 
Future Application:
For future application, I think that blogging would be really effective in an English or Art History class where you have to give interpretations of really abstract ideas.  Blogs would give students a window into seeing the different perspectives of how their peers viewed a poem or painting.

I also ran across this website, which I found to be kind of interesting as related to blogging in an academic setting.

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