For the last post, I will address a few different points about blogging. Fist and foremost, I will tackle the overview of blogging. I think blogging is incredibly interesting and it gives students a chance to formally write about different topics, including topic of their choosing. Writing a blog gives the students a sort of fun and interactive way to experiment and establish their tone and voice. I had a good time writing blogs because I considered it fun, and it is definitely better than writing a paper.First point to address to be successful in blogging, just ensure you are well aware of your audience, and then use appropriate language to keep them dialed in. Be active and not dead, for example, "hello, I think drugs are bad because they are illegal. Drugs have bad stuff in them, which is why so many people die from it" (my terrible example of a not so "alive" sentence). To reiterate my point about knowing the audience, students won't read something so dull; pictures, questions, etc. will resurrect a post and make it interesting.
Blogging gives students a chance to dissect other student's use of words and phrases to see their tones and voice. With technology, blogging becomes a very simple thing because most things are so present and all one has to do is insert words, so students can learn about another student's tone. I also learned that I still cannot automatically catch rhetoric devices and understand tone quick enough, which I feel will come back to haunt me.
Overall, I really think the blogging assignments are useful because it is a quick little fun thing to do weekly to maintain your rhetoric and speech skills, it is weekly as well, so the assignments forces students to stay on it. I really wish I can continue to do blogs as an assignment because I felt that it sharpen my skills, pertaining to my speech, whether it be writing or reading.
