Should we continue using the blog for completing assignments?

During the past few months, our class has been using blogger to complete our assignments. Using a blog is definetly a different way of doing homework, which includes many pros and cons. Do the pros overpower the cons blog have,or should our class stop using blogger?

At the beginning of using blogger,our class had tons of technical difficulties. This put us behind schedule and playing catch up. It ended up taking two weeks to actually start posting. Also,throughout the blogging experience, people didn't listen to instructions or were to lazy and didn't end up posting on time or at all. This led to groups being shut down and students receiving letters home to parents. Since the blog was online, people didn't think it would be as big of deal if they didn't do their work because maybe the teacher wouldn't notice.

Although there were many cons to blogging, there were definetly pros as well. For example, we got the chance for our peers to comment and critique our work through the help of commenting. This tool was very helpful because not only did we get Mrs. Lees to critique our work, but our peers too.

Overall, I think blogs were a good expierience, but only a portion got a hang of it even after all this time. I think it would be a good idea if the students had the choice to either keep using blogger or go back to paper, depending on how well they used blogger.