Blogs - Signing Off

Blogging in general seems pretty cool; it provides a good way to keep people posted with what's happening in your life or in the realm of your interests or whatever. For this class, however, I have mixed feelings about using blogs. At first I thought the blogging idea was great, an easy grade. As the semester wore on, I found that it wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. Coming up with things to blog about was occasionally challenging, but what was really a challenge was finding some way to comment (it took quite a lot of time reading all the blogs too). Many times I would want to comment, but would either not really know what to write, or decided I didn't want to point out the errors in word choice, punctuation, capitalization, or any other various issues, not wanting to be "that guy". I think the blogs would have been more beneficial if some of the errors were addressed instead of being repeated throughout the semester.
Blogging was an interesting way to share writings with the class though. Unlike a more traditional English class with nothing more than essay after essay, it provided a little variety to keep things interesting. Almost every week there was at least one blog that was fun to read (no, I’m not saying it was my blogs), and it was cool to see the different views people had on the Monday blogs when we all wrote about the same thing (more or less).