As another semester comes to an end, I am beginning to realize how much I have gained from the classes I have taken. In this class for example, I again amaze myself in writing 5,000-7,000 words on my own online blog. Like Derek mentioned in the last day of class, this is equal to 25-30 pages. This just goes to show how technologically advanced our society is becoming and instead of writing the traditional, boring 10 page paper we have all learned how to be “bloggers” and become part of a new trend.
Coming into this class I was familiar with blogging, because of COM 240 with Derek last semester, but I still did not know a good amount. I knew was that anyone could do it, because a couple of my friends write sports blogs. I found that the more you blog, the easier it becomes and if I didn’t take this class, I think that I would still have the same blogging skills that I had before. If more people knew how easy it was, I think that they would be blogging also, but people aren’t familiar enough with it, therefore they don’t do it. Reading up on blogging, I found that the definition of blog is a website maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events or other material such as graphics or video. Although textual blogs are the most popular, there are several different types of blogs, so I’m sure people wouldn’t have a hard time finding something they are interested in. other than textual there are; artlog (art), photoblog (photographs), sketchblog (portfolio sketches), vlog (videos), MP3 blog (music), podcasting (audio).
This semester I learned more about blogs than I did in COM 240 last semester. We learned how blogging is becoming more and more popular in today’s world and how some blogs are taking precedence over newspapers or other forms of print media. We learned how bloggers are adopting journalists to analyze their works. With blogging arises big questions, how do we decide what to trust and where can we find trustworthy information? One way is to find other sites that have the same information, but from different sources, then you know that the information is coming from various sources and that it is credible.
In the end, I would never regret taking this class. I am going to take away so much from this class and hopefully will never forget what I learned. I feel that I now have the ability to help people understand the internet and how its rapid advancements affect everyone. I also hope to continue on with my blogging career and start a sports blog where I can express my feelings about current topics and events in the world of sports.
GO BULLS!!!
