After this class if done and over with, I will most likely not keep blogging in this particular blog. That does not mean that I will not blog at all in the future. I've been applying for a lot of job positions, blogging positions, that require some previous background. I would not use this blog because I don't think this blog really shows my skills as a writer since it was a lot of just my general thoughts, reviews, and other class assignments. I do however have another blog, not a personal blog, that I use for my own independent zine. So, yes I will keep blogging after this class has finished, however I most likely will delete this particular blog since it was for a class.
The best part of this class was that it only met once a week. I don't think I could have dealt with this class if it was two or more times a week! Another aspect which I found good was that the work itself was not too hard! It wasn't hard at all, and sometimes I felt like it was just busy work.
The worst part of this class is the fact that I felt like a lot of what we did was pointless, and even a waste of time/money. I don't like feeling that time is wasted, since it is so precious and we only get so much of it! Another reason why I feel this way is because when I first registered for this class I was under the assumption that it was a News Design class that would teach me how to do layouts, design, etc. When I found out that this class had nothing do to with that, and instead found out we would be blogging I was honestly let down, and wished I had known ahead of time, that way I could have registered for another class that would have benefited me in the long run. No offense, but I don't think any college senior needs to learn how to blog!
One improvement, in my opinion, would be to instead of assigning five plus blogs a week, would only assign maybe a website review and one (or two, that could be pushing it though) additional blog posts. My reasoning for this is because as college students we don't have a lot of time on our hands, between balancing our academic lives, our social lives, our family lives, everything builds up, and blogging is not as important as some assignments that may be assigned to us. And when assigning a review for a website, I think it would be more beneficial for the student to review a website of his/her choice because that way they would be more interested in reviewing it, it will feel less like a chore, or homework!
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I definately agree that these blogs would probably not be used again, especially because it is very hard for anyone to find these and there wouldn't be much of a point in posting on them.
Having this class once a week was definately a perk, and it gives you the entire afternoon, if you don't have anymore classes, to catch up on work and other things.
Yes, I think much of the posts we did were completely pointless, especially the free-topic blogs. And having to do more than two or three blogs each week was really hard to do especially with work in other classes. It seemed like sometimes this was supposed to be our only class that had work due in it. And those free topic blogs were getting really, really tedious towards the end because there weren't any ideas.
I'm curious to see how your writing differs between this blog and any others. The topics might be different , but your style can stay the same.
I think two days of this class would chop it up a little better. But it does feel good to be done with it after one.
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