Other than my RTF 305 blog, the only other blog that I had was on my Myspace site a few years ago. It wasn't based on any focus, but that of random thoughts or if I had written something and wanted to share. I think one even just had photos. This blog was also not an everyday thing, in fact it was not constant at all. The blog was more of whenever I wanted to post something that I didn't want to stay permanently on my profile page. They were more like Facebook posts today, and at the time I did not have a Facebook.
The positive aspects of using blogs in this course was that I found myself relating certain examples that I had used in my blog to a movie shown in class, or a topic covered in lecture. In a sense the blogs were a bridging of understanding what was going on.
The first technical problem I encountered was putting a YouTube video on my blog. I did not want to save the clip to my computer, so I had to go to YouTube and select the share button at the bottom for Blogger, and copy the video to my post on another tab. Some of the blogs were written in a confusing manner and some seemed a bit too general. To fix these difficulties, I generally found another way of doing what I wanted to do, like the copy/paste thing I did with the YouTube video. To help the general prompt, I would go back to my notes to elaborate on an example that I understood very well.
The most interesting blog prompt to me was the one about advertising, because it is my field of interest and I felt like I knew exactly what I was talking about. The less interesting blog prompts were the first ones that dealt with terms. For example, the one where we had to explain a concept such as social learning. To me, it was tedious because that part of the class did not really interest me. I want to say that the most difficult prompt was the last one that was given about globalization because it was extremely vague and general. It was hard to elaborate because the prompt didn't really state what exactly they were looking for.
I think that using a blog is a great concept to introduce people to modern web use and technology, but to those that are a little more creative, I feel like prompts based on examples from lecture and not one's own defeats the purpose of checking for understanding. Personally, I felt that when I thought out of the box, I got lower grades than whenever I provided examples straight from lecture or the textbook. In regards to continuing the blogs, I would recommend having more opportunity for creative feedback as an option.
Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.
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