Blog Reflection

This is my final blog, because I am almost completely done with w401.  Overall, I think that the blogs were okay, but I think there are better ways to do reflections than blogs.  Yes, blogs are one way to integrate technology in the classroom, but I feel that a journal of reflections would be just as effective.  So as a student I think blogs are okay, but I definitely felt that they were too time consuming and sometimes didn't seem to be very helpful.  Maybe if the topics were more structured I may have felt differently about blogging.

As a teacher I think the benefit of doing blogs could be getting feedback on how the class is going, and what needs to be improved.  However, if students don't have access to this type of technology then it could be a problem, and probably shouldn't be used.  Overall,  I think that blogs could be a productive way to get feedback on the class, so they do merit consideration.