Communicating via Blog

At first, I didn’t like the idea about blogging with my classmates. I thought it to be a waste and kinda weird just because I wouldn’t want someone to come to me and say “hey, you wrote on my blog about ______!” Though later, my preception on blogging had changed. I was able to learn about my classmates a lot better and from the 3 other classes I am taking this semester, this management class is the only class I know more about my classmates then just their names. I believe I have benefited from meeting others online which definitely extended communicating more in class.
Whenever we were given a blogging assignment and my goal was to just answer the questions but I found it interesting that, whenever I did write that I end up providing more information and including more of my preceptions about some of what we did in class. The class activities had important lessons to be learned and of course the only way of remembering it is diagnosing and discussing it.
Blogging as a 20% part of our grade was a gift to the students because all it pushed you to do is just share your thoughts and opinions. The tests in the class was fair in my opinion and I am glad that this wasn’t another class that is heavily weighed on exams because then I think the incentive and motivation to learn would have decreased. Overall, I believe blogging was an excellent idea for the class esecially large classrooms that does not always give you the flexibity to give a chance for everyone to speak everytime we meet. I might consider blogging in the future and possibly in may career but I feel I kind of already do that through facebook. The blog should remain a component of this course though I don’t think there should be any penalities for writing a blogging entry after due date.