Like most of us, the very thought
of starting a Blog at the beginning of the semester had me stumped. I had heard about blogs, just had never read
one or for that matter wrote one. For
the first two weeks, my blog posts were not showing up. I had no idea what was
wrong or what I had done. This only
added to the anxiety of having to do the blog in the first place. Therefore, I emailed Mrs. Chism I do not know
how many times, until her and I finally figured out what I had done wrong. When we were setting up our blogs at the
beginning of the semester, I had gotten side tracked somehow and had set up a
blog with my personal email address.
After about two or three days of being completely dumbfounded and not
understanding what was going on, I noticed at the top of the blog homepage in
all caps my personal email address. I
had set one up also under my student email, which is the one that I had sent to
Mrs. Chism. Yes, I had been doing my
blog posts all along, just on the “wrong” blog page.
During
this semester, I have learned how writing can be therapeutic. Even if it is not
done exactly how it is supposed to be wrote, or in the exact format. Being able to voice your opinion or thoughts
through your blog posts has been a new way for me to open up to more people. When we starting writing one post a week
about something going on in our personal life or something that we were
interested in, I think that with all of
us being able to do this, it helped us to know a little more about the person
on the other side of the computer. Being in an online class, we do not know much
about the other students in our class, so being able to read their blogs every
week, and reading about something or someone in their lives, helps you realize
that we are all in the same boat at times. Whether it is a sick child, or a
husband driving you crazy, a graduation, a new baby, it makes the class a
little more personalized. You know that
you are not alone, and that the other students in your class are going through
some of the same things as you might be.
We all have anxiety about writing in some way or another, and with
having to do this blog; it has helped me out a lot.
With everything leaning more
towards technology today, I think having to do a blog in class will start being
the normal thing to have to do as a part of the class. I know that for me, having to write a blog
every week has helped me be more open and creative. I hope that more classes, especially online
classes start having students do blogs.
It helps!
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