Thing #4

Blogs are like old school journaling and teachers could post comments at the bottom and pass them around for other classmates to comment on as well. Except blogs are a little more open to a larger audience then just one class of students. Blogs are more to the point and easier to just set down and spend time scrolling to read. You don't have the thickness of a book to discourage you or pages to count you just keep scrolling down so what an advantage to people who are easily distracted. Blogs are still writing for a purpose so that makes a connection to other types of journaling. Blogs can be very informative and full of strong opinions and great debates. You can easily see how there can be so many comments quickly to a heated topic. All writing is purposeful so to me it's similar to all types of writing... prompted or free writes. When someone comments to a blog they add their knowledge and it gives a deeper understanding to the subject and new ideas for all the readers. Blogging is fast pace and to the point so it makes me feel like I have time to get something accomplished and learn some new up to date info in a quick way. You have to read what is written and also it makes you question some of the things that were posted so you have to research some of the ideas to ponder hmmmm does this technique really work? Sometimes this will facilitate learning because it makes you question and search looking to justify what you have read or giving you information to contradict what has been posted via a blog.