In this final weekly article, for this quarter I will First discuss some of the things I feel that the helps with for example it is better than copying straight from the board and studying from paper, some of the advantages of blogging instead of writing on a piece of paper. However there are some things that can become problematic when blogging and sending the data to a web site on a weekly basis. Other than that I will discuss some of my personal feelings about the idea of blogging on a weekly basis.
The Idea of blogging is in reality a really wonderful idea because if you are like most people of this generation and this day in age you probably use the computers a lot for purchasing, work, organization, and research takes advantage of the computer’s enormous abilities. Since more people than ever before are using computers to transmit ideas and type. Blogging would come like second nature for most people since a large amount of people already do blog on a daily basis and are bound to be more likely to turn in assignments such as a blog post instead of slacking off. With that being said a majority of people in several studies showed that the average student is more likely to do the assignments on the computer than having to hand write the assignments. Also for people and students who have poor hand writing, like myself prefer to type the dailies or any other assignments since it is usually a lot neater than hand writing the assignment. This also helps the teacher as well allowing him/ her to be able to actually read the students work without having to interpret their hand writing, and making grade processing faster. One of the advantages I enjoy about the ideas is the fact that you don’t have to wait long to get it to the teacher, as before you had to wait until you had the period to turn the work in which there is a slight chance you may lose the work, and have to redo it completely or simply cannot find it due to poor organization. Blogging online eliminates that barrier in the way that the data is stored online and is always there never to become misplaced. Blogging also helps keep a record of our work which the student could use in an application for college or job to show you ability. One of the things I like about is that if you accidentally make a few mistakes and didn’t correct them you can go back and edit the text you entered even if you have already posted the assignment.
However there are also a few problems with blogging and some of which a very serious dealing the privacy and security and personal issues. For example one of the things that I dislike about it is that the blogs we post can be seen by more than just the teacher alone the entire blogger community is able to see you work. For some students who may post blogs with personal information about them selves or other people sometimes revealing very personal issues to the world. Although this can be easily fixed by some of the moderators that watch over the site, at the same time there is also the risk of a total site crash due to viruses or overloads of data that could damage the site and possibly your blogs on the site as well, possibly even transmitting the virus to your computer. The best way to defend against this disadvantage is to simply back up your blog one your own computer to serve as reference and install antivirus software to your computer.
There is another barrier to blogging as well while taking into account that there are some students that do not poses a computer. However there are also some that have computer but lack Internet access or they cannot afford it. Another disadvantage to blogging would be the lack of the certain software to access blogger.com.
While there are many advantages to using blogger, I feel that the risks outweigh the possible problems, since most of the issues can be prevented very easily through planning, preparation, and awareness
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