The FInal Countdown

So again the question is What is a Blog? To me a blog is still an alternate place to communicate. More and more people are communicating through the Internet and text messages rather than going and talking to whom ever face to face. If you think about it soon that will be the main mode a communication rather than picking up a phone to talk to some one.
Blogging is a new way to communicate and get ideas across. It can be used for all types of reasons. In this class it is a class assignment and different type of homework and class participation. For some people, blogs can be a type of diary and a way to vent about their feelings or what ever has been going on in their lives.
Up until this class, I had never written a blog. They just never appealed to me. I didn't need to write a blog about my life and what is going on in it and put it on the internet. I had no reason to ever think about writing a blog. I still don't think I will ever use a blog after this class, it just isn't who I am. I find it interesting to read blogs from other people. There are many talented people on the internet and many of them use blogs to put up short stories, poems or other things. So I guess I like blogs but not for my own personal use. I would just rather read others blogs and admire their talent and ideas.
For this class, blogging has been an interesting new way to communicate with the class. It has been a way that is out of the normal do homework and come to class ready to discuss, to learn the current subject. Personally, I don’t think I really like blogging as an assignment. I always forget to do the blog and it obviously counts against me. It’s not like I am purposefully not doing it, it’s just that other things come up and the blog is pushed out of my mind.
Overall I think that doing a blog has added something to the class. They were a new way to learn and express our views as students. Plus most of the time in class there’s only one or two people that talk in class and it makes it hard to hear what everyone has to say. When it’s only a couple of people that talk the class gets boring and people start to loose interest. Through blogging we have been able to see what those silent people have had on their minds through out the semester. It’s been really interesting seeing everyone’s personalities through the layout that they have chosen for their blogs. Everyone can change the colors of the blogs and where everything is located, it’s like a new Myspace. It’s fun to change it up when ever you feel like it.
I like looking at everyone from the class’s blogs. It is fun to look at their ideas. I think my favorites have probably been Cari and Susanne and Mitch’s blogs. Their blogs have always been really interesting and funny in some aspects.