Communication via Blog

Having a blog is an important tool used to understand this class for purposes of both learning about the materials and getting to know of our fellow classmates. It helps me at least reflect back to the class activities we had done and what I got out of from those activities. It also provides a useful communication passage for number of us to get to know each other. By reading and commenting to other people’s blogs, we get a sense of knowing the similarities and differences in us—our dreams (from Power of Vision) and our personalities (from personal profile system). It did help me in meeting others via online and extended to communicating in class. The blog initiated communication between classmates who I didn’t get a chance to talk in class. It helps to establish a more comfortable and learning experience. It counts for 20% of our grade (required no outside research), which I think is beneficiary. It is definitely an easier task than writing a paper or essays relating to management, because the topics we wrote for are merely reflection of what we learned.

I am not exactly sure if I will still use the blog after this class has ended, because I have a Xanga which I have been writing on since high school. I might come back to this blog for mostly academic purposes.

Finally, I do think that the blog should remain a component for this course, because it is an effective tool (at least to me it is). I think it can be improved if students write more on it, using it as both academic and personal use, because from what I see most people including me, we just posted assigned blog on the topics we had to write, but we rarely posted any other ones other than the assignments. Maybe some people don’t have the habit of writing blog, but it will be a good idea if the professor can give an extra credit of 1 or 2 for people who use the blog constantly, so that way, there is more communication between students.