I have read the article of Jill Walker Weblogs:Learning in Public. The most of all I like in this article one of the last ideas: while learning how to blog, students learn how to live in the network environment. I think this is the main idea of it and I am going to talk about it.
I was reading the article and I desagreed first with the author. People have different personalities and different relations, so it is not always comfortable for everybody to blog about their life, feelings or even studies progress. Or at least it can have as the result their formal approach – they just put few posts and forget about it. But of course there are always people who are comfortable with it and they are just looking for possibility to share their ideas or to find soul mates or discussion opponents in the net. There are also those who do not know much about blogging and they really need such kind of course.
For example Nora gave negative feedback because she is such kind of a person who does not need the blogging much. But the good point is that she got also some knowledge about blogging and it can help her in future because our life is getting more and more computerized and communication now often takes place in the net. So probably she will need to share her work or scientific researches with colleagues from all over the world – so the blog will be very helpful to her. Or she will face some personal problem in her life and will need someone to tell about it and to get advices.
Blogs are also a way to get rid of some feelings or to get support in a difficult situation. I am sure that blogs saved lives of many people already – when something happen, people look for support, and it is the easiest way to help someone you do not know. Just few kind words can save life.
Blogs are useful for education – I know some universities use them for distance education. People meet there and discuss different issues. So it is an easy way to share your information and conclusions and to get comments or to read someone else’s experience.
In blogs and daries we are like talking to ourselves and at the same time on public, so a lot of new ideas come to out mind and we easier find solution. We also better listen to our feelings and ideas and get them more or less under control. And if they are controlled more or less – it affects our way of thinking.
I liked a lot that our teacher in IT class gave us information on blogs. I bet many of us had one or two blogs before, and also we are really overloaded with studies, so we had no much time to go and to read other blogs. And though there are so many of us in our group, it was still nice to read about other people – where are they from and what are their interests, and also to tell something about myself and about my interests. I will most probably use this blog afterwards, I do not know yet what will be the destination, but maybe posting something about my studies and work experiences.
