This quarter my favorite class has been US history honors with my wonderful teacher Mr.Meechin. One oft he most fun aspects of the class so far has been our weekly assignments that were done through blogging. I really like this way of homework doing and i definitely agree with it. I believe that this system of homework doing and learning is very beneficiary in many ways both for the students and the instructor.
Students are the ones who enjoy this the most. For most of the students in our class this is a new method of doing homework and to many people, like me, it is very enjoyable and reasonable. Through blogging i believe that my learning has increased a whole lot. It makes me want to do my work every week while i am trying something new at the same time, in this case that would be blogging. Blogging gives students a chance to express how they feel about the topic assigned and create a voice for themselves in this international audience. Something that i find fascinating is that we are writing these topic blogs and they are out there for the whole world to see, and we really cant imagine who might read them!
Our topics are always fun and they are fairly easy. I like them because there isn't really a right or wrong answer, it is just your opinion expressed to everyone out there. I think that it is nothing challenging since we aren't writing an essay so there really isn't any reason for it to get boring but instead get more interesting as you progress and start getting a hang of it. Another thing is we are teenagers living in 2010 so off course we are all so technologically advanced so for this type of assignment to be given to us results as something fun and rather interesting. Blogging has also become one of the most used methods of Internet communication for greater audiences out there and for us students to be able to start a blog of our own and really make it personal and have it out there is a great achievement and development that can lead to many new things!
Now for instructors such as mine who assign such homework it has advantages too. First of all they already mark the difference by assigning things that they now aren't going to be boring for their students and therefor will be more interested and actually do their work and learn from it. Also i believe it must be really fun to be able to read all these different ideas and responses that come from the students. Its definitely not boring for them because once again there is no wrong or right answer so it must be interesting to see how people think differently and respond to different ideas in such a mixed manner.
So i absolutely 100 percent agree with the use of the blogging assessment system in our class. It is something new that i had never seen before and i definitely like it, a lot! It makes me want to do my work and really enjoy it. Writing my opinions and putting them out there for my instructor and really the whole world to me gives me a feeling of happiness inside because it is something new and way out of the ordinary. I am for sure looking forward to the rest of the year and the many more blogging assessments we are going to get with the many different topics we still have to come!
