Digital Education

How do you feel about blogging now that you have had an opportunity to develop a history with it over the past two and a half months? Do you feel that you are more or less organized and productive than you would be "the old fashioned way?" What are some of the advantages? What are some of the drawbacks? What advice might you give to students starting the course next semester about how to get the most out of their blogging experience?

I deteste blogging ! I do not like the idea of computers as a class. I personally feel like I am in a computer class, and not and english one. I have never taken a computer class before, for the simple reason that I have no interest. I think that the whole everything submitted online thing is a little weird. What ever happened to pencils and paper. Or handing in a solid copy, then once its returned you can at least see your errors.

Half the time diigo does not work. There fore I have not recieved any feedback on any of my assignments. I don't like the idea of a teacher having to search down the blog for your assignments. I have had nothing marked in over 2 months. Which makes it very hard to show my curious parents how I am improving. Sure they can go online and look at my work, but that doesnt really change anything. My parents aren't english teachers so they cant tell me where I'm going right and wrong. The last time something on my blog was looked at was October 17th. Since then there has been nothing.

I feel that there is not a proper communication / relationship with student and teacher through the internet. I think verbal communication is necessary especially in a class like this. We are supposed to be learning to become better writers, and instead I have been learning to use the internet. I do not think that there are any advantages. Sure there is the whole idea of how no assignments are lost. But an assignment should not be lost anyways. It should be the students responsibility to hand it in, the teacher marks it, and then returns it. I miss getting an assignment back with visible corrections, and learning from my mistakes.

Half the time, the entire class is on facebook, or games. And I can't say anything because I am guilty of it too. But if the class was in an actual class room I do not think this would be as much of a problem. I could understand if we were in a class room, and then in a lab once in a while. But once it became an everyday thing. People started to get bored, and therefore ended up on facebook, youtube or MLIA.

I really hope for the benefit of future students that this whole class is not based on an online blog.