Communicating via Blog

I think the blog has been a great communication tool for this class. I liked that we can communicate outside the classroom in a relaxed setting. It encourages social interaction between students in the class who otherwise would've never known or spoken to each other. It's definitely easier to approach someone in person the next day after you briefly introduced yourself to him/her on their blog. Students can learn about each others thoughts and lives through their blogs and relate to each other more closely that if their contact was limited to the classroom. Also I think it's very interesting to read about other people's thoughts and perspectives on different things. It's quite surprising to find that sometimes other people think so differently from you.

Asides from that I think it's a great way to improve my writing skills. Sometimes I liked to free write here for a few minutes without publishing it. Blogging forces me to think and reflect in order to write, so that what was just an idea in my mind becomes more concrete. It's definitely useful before starting a paper to get rid of the writers block. Of course it also lets me to reflect on the activities we did in class and what I learned from them.

It's a worthwhile component not just specifically for this class but for any other class as well. I highly recommend it.