Mini Proposal: Complete a 700 word (120 words per paragraph, 5 paragraphs) proposal for making improvements to the blog component of the course before I use it again. For the intro describe the problem. For the thesis, tell me what the solution is (its fine if it is a list that represents the topic sentences of the three body paragraphs
I think that the blog was a good idea. It let everyone get to know each other from another perspective. Just doing the blog every week with deadlines made it to complicated. As soon as the semester became more active I kind of lost touch with keeping the blogs all on schedule. Since everyone gets on the social sites having a class page from one of them is not a bad idea at all. We can easily go on their and post something. I do not know but it is like social sites are addictive. It can make everyone reply to the activities more. Giving us a reason to really do the homework and looking forward to completing it. It gets interesting but then it gets boring.
I think the question are more responsive and it helped me work on my structure. Just going commenting back and forth i lost touch of that to. We should brainstorm more in class about everything the topic is pertaining to. Brainstorming and using every ones ideas to make your own helps you better your judgment from everyone else. The readings are very helpful but some of the questions was to overwhelming sometimes. It is not bad keeping up with it if you think out the box.
The timing was not so bad. Just it was to much every week. I managed to get most of it completed. Just sometimes when you get lazy and then theirs all kinds of homework you have to do. It can get very nerve wrecking trying to maintain every ones site all at one time. Each teacher has a site for different things and some things are time consuming and it just makes everything hectic. But I had fun when it first started. We should just have a mixture of a freestyle and brainstorming blog. Like the freestyle can be on any topic that you want and the brainstorming can be a mixture of lessons from class.
The commenting back and forth it was helpful when the topics are confusing and controversial. I just stopped because sometimes the time was not there. I wish some of the topics were focused on freestyle and half on school. But the blog theme was nice and I did not mind doing it. Yes. you should keep using blogger. You can give them topics to write on and they can prove their point and see which one is more important. Just focusing on what can help their writing skills embraced. A lot of things can help them out when they can be comfortable and write strongly. Having some freedom of writing what you think but in a responsible manner can get everyone participating equally.
The pros and cons out weight each other a little bit. It can also balance out. They can stop doing it because they do not have the time or they just do not care. And the positive outcomes from the new site would give them time to figure things out with more time like a blog one a week. So that would give them time when they have free time to do their blog in a timely manner. That gives everyone happy grades and they can express themselves more than in a time consuming blog. The experience is nice when you are a person that likes expressing themselves out loud. This semester of doing the blogs was something new that i have not done before. It reminds me of twitter a little bit.
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