Write your thoughts on the article ‘Blogging to Learn, Learning to Blog’ by Jean Burgess.
Have you used a blog before? If so, why? Do you think blogging is a form of creative
expression?
Find a blog that you like which you think is ‘effective’.
The article is very useful in the sense that it explains the academic benefits to blogging. It revealed to me that blogging is an educational exercise, not only used by people who like to write about a particular topic. I have never written a blog before this class, the article tells me the style of writing that should be used, a mix between a formal essay and a friendly email. It shows your character and personality but still works as an informational database engaging the public. It forces us to take ownership for our work, resulting in the owner putting time and care in each blog in order to be portrayed in the way they want.
I definitely think blogging is a form of creative expression, by writing a blog you can speak about a topic of interest to you and portray it in the way you want using words, images, links, quotes and other mediums to express yourself. This is quite similar to an artist or poet in the sense that they express their creative side through their work.
Stephen Downes says it “is a process of bringing life into learning.” Through reading, interoperating, researching, and questioning topics of interest you have the opportunity to engage the community and reflect with your blog online. After being given a task to do in class, we the writers get to give our opinions and discoveries to the world through our online blogs where we can interact and comment upon others and receive feedback on out work.
Occasionally I read blogs to get reviews on a movie or country I am thinking of visiting. I prefer to read blogs than to just read website descriptions because it allows me to connect with people who have experienced it already with less bias to the subject being researched.
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