Blog #12: Opinion Piece

Opinion Piece: Blogging as a learning tool

I’ve personally have never taken a class like this, having to blog about the topics discussed in class and most cases go a step farther and learn more on the given topic. In my experience it led to some interesting finds. W topics are as general as Botox, I found myself learning a lot more than I would have thought on the subject. This is really more of an evaluation of my experiences with blogging as a learning tool. 

For me, almost every topic we were given to blog about was interesting, the information I found was usually varied applying to different fields that may or may not have been related to industry. A lot of times I had to condense information, usually limiting my posts to 300 words. Personally I found it hard to write on the topics at times, because while I'd research the topics picking and choosing what to put in my blog was hard. Other times I found the topic was very broad and spectrum of information I found even broader.

I can really only speak for myself and students like me, but blogging as a way to reinforce topics learned in class or just increase general knowledge on a subject, I think is very effective. My main reasons being, for students like who genuinely enjoy learning new things at their own pace, will probably like blogging as a learning tool. I liked it because I got to really learn more about the topic from varying and diverse sources, and usually going off topic to learn about other relating subjects

The only limitations I can really mention is the resources students use when researching topics, limiting viable sources to certain trusted and verified databases, sites and or online libraries will probably be necessary in the future for widespread and effective use of blogging as a learning tool.