During the semester I really didnt like the blog at all. I'm not an blog person and I barley use the internet, but the problem with the blog is everybody doesn't have one an some maybe never even heard about it. Another thing is the understanding of some of the blogs how you would want us to do them and how to put ourselves in those situation you had on there. I think if you made it on facebook it would really improve the participation in responding to the post and assignments that you would want to put there. So, I'm going to farther example how I think if you would move it from blog to facebook that it would increase the participation in class.
Facebook today is like the new popular spot today in america communcations network with twitter being second . This mean that if you would switch to facebook most or pretty much all of the students would have one so you won't be worrying if they have one. It's also good cause you can keep track of them the same way as a blog, but you would get a better participation with your students and it could help you to get an even better understanding on how your students write and there on personal look on life. Then you could easily to see which students are not giving a real effort into doing the post .Another way you can make it is better topics to the posts that you would want them to respond to.
Having good topics to your blogs can also improve them because having a boring topic to talk about would really discourage discourage students to do them every week. A lot of my fellow classmates sms myself agreed that if there were interesting topics that we could really express ourselves more and maybe relate better to some of the situations and agruements you would want to talk about. I like the topic where we talk about how the students where getting a better education then another student because I could really relate to that situation and could make a good agruement that the student wasnt getting a fair education like then other student. Having a extended time to do each blog would also make it better.
Extended time to do the blog will also make it better. Because you get the topic on monday and it's due by wednesday now you look at that and you say thats a lot of time, but look at some of the topics that you have issued to us that at times take more then a night or day to do. Some students may have questions on the blog and you don't respond to there email or something so they have to wait till next class period that takes a day from them because they would have to wait til they see you in class again which would be the day it would be due. So instead of making the due date wednesday make it friday ands to comment on another classmates stuff should be due sunday night at midnight. Making sure that all your students will have the same amount of time to due the blog and also have the same amount of time as the others.
These things could really make the blog better for the next semester. Having a popular site that everybody use and would be fimiliar with. Then by extending the time to do the more diffculted blog would also help the students do there best on the post. I personally didn't like doing the blog because of theses reasons and I feel I wasn't allow in this situation. I enjoyed the class and I really felt like I got a different look at the literacy side and the right way to revise a paper and write it.
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