Being a Blogger

Reflect on becoming a blogger:
In what ways has blogging enhanced your learning experience in this course?
In what ways has blogging hindered your learning experience in this course?
How have your views of teaching Social Studies changed since you entered this course six weeks ago

Is being a blogger that different from being a poster? Besides the fact that the whole world can see, and it do not go away after a set number of months. I do not think so.

So that sounded pretty negative. But I am not negative about blogging, I am rather neutral. There were good parts of blogging and bad parts. I will start with the good.

I enjoyed getting to voice my thoughts and ideas through the blog, and getting Dr. Duncan's responses. I also like the idea that other people could read and respond to my ideas, although no one did.

The things that were not so great about blogging could probably be blamed mostly on the time constraints on the course. I felt rushed to get my blogs done, so I did not get to enjoy each posting as much as I could have and would have like to. Also, I did not get to post about other things, although I would have liked to. Looking through other people blogs, I realize they found the time to get their thoughts in, and even add pictures and make their blogs really interesting. I regret that I did not spend the time on mine that they did, but I was just concerned with getting the blogs posted in time.

This course has really changed Social Studies for me. Before, I was not excited about and and I never thought to make it interesting by integrating the various arts. Of course I had thought about mixing it with Language Arts and maybe Science, but now that I have seen such great examples from my classmates of how I can make Social Studies relevant and fun, I know that I can do a lot more with Social Studies than what my teachers did!