Should we continue blogging? (No)

Blogging has had both desired and undesired effects on our class. Blogger has allowed for third person reviews on the individual's post, increasing our formal writing skills and giving us the ability to comment and increase our feedback to others. But there are also quite a few problems, causing me to believe that in this case the consequences greatly outweigh the gains.

Problem number 1:

Technical Issues.

Although blogger has helped us with having a homework 'community' it has also become notoriously unreliable to not allow us to complete our homework. At the start of our experience there were LOTS of problems, as with all startups. The main difference though is that many of those problems have still not been solved. Like how some people can not post with blogger even when they are authors and how blogger sometimes causes my Internet explorer to temporarily crash. Also, although there is online help from our 'community' the responses to our problems are often not given within our needed time frame of the assignment, causing the quality of our work to deteriorate. In some cases, such as Montana's, blogger has not allowed him to post at all even though he is a 'team member' in the group. Yes, we may need to know how to use blogger in the future as members of our society, though I believe we have learned all we can about blogger from this little experience.

Problem number 2:

Distractions.

This may be one of our problems and not blogger's, but as it affects the majority of students it is an unintended problem. We are still just kids, and its unhealthy for us to be super disciplined. Blogger is an online tool and that means that we can do our homework along facebook and youtube. Having these distractions destroys our train of thought during our homework assignments and reduces both efficiency and quality of our work, making it a rather unenjoyable experience for us students, as blogger tends to drag on much longer than needed. If we had ti write the assignments out, the majority of us would usually do so without the computer on. And no one can really blame us students for this problem either. What can you expect if you give a kid a reason to go on the computer? Also remember the saying, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

Conclusion:

Blogger has given us some perks to the online writing world but let us not forget the downsides. I found that it creates either a really well learning experience for some or a really bad learning experience for others, with very little middle ground. I believe that when one idea fails we should give another idea a chance, (please post ideas in comment box) and that blogger, even though it had potential with our class, has run its course in our curriculum.