The blog that I created for this class is the first time that I have ever used a blog before. It's probably also the first time that I've read any blogs before since I do that to see what other people in the class are thinking when I need help understanding a blog prompt.
The positive aspects of using blogs in this course is that it forces you to use review the material you learned in class or from the textbook in order to complete your blog posts for each week.
At times the blog prompts could be a little confusing, however for the most part I didn't really have any issues at all using the blog. It was very easy to set up and to use. It's a very straightforward kind of website. Any difficulties that I did have I could figure out by reading other students' from class blogs and see what they did.
The most interesting and fun blog prompts were the ones where we were actually able to apply conceptual ideas that we learned from class to something. For example, my favorite blog post to do was the one where we found examples of the different types of shots from Charles Ramirez Berg's lecture from a movie that we liked and explained their significance.
I don't whether or not blogs would be beneficial in other undergraduate courses at UT-Austin, but I do think that it a good tool for 305. In a class this size, it's nice to be able to classwork that let's us give our own ideas that we don't get to do when taking multiple choice tests.
The only thing that I would suggest to improve using the blogs in 305 would be if the prompts were a little less confusing sometimes. Most of the time they were very easy to understand, but there were a few exceptions where I wasn't quite sure what you all were asking.
Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.
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