Before attending RTF 305 I had hardly had a handle on the workings of Facebook. The blog was definitely a completely new experience.
The blogs helped to force the application of the course material. They made you think about what it was that you were saying when talking about the RTF concepts and helped to give insight into how those concepts are used. It was also a great tool to help study for the tests.
The only thing that was a little frustrating at times was they limited ability to manipulate the actual blog page with inserting pictures; it could be my lack of computer knowledge though. Finding examples was a bit of a challenge at times. I was always concerned as to whether or not the example would fit the prompt. No major issues though.
The ability to check other people’s blogs to see how they answered the prompt or how they may have formatted their post was a great help. Whenever I happened to get stuck I would just go see how others interpreted the prompt to help get me get started, and if it was a technical problem I would just ask or call some people to help me out.
One of my personal favorite posts was the one about long, medium and close up shots. I thought it was fun to look through a film and discover those scenes in the movie. It gave me a new perspective on film techniques and exactly why some shots are the way they are. It was also cool to look through some films and find where these techniques were used and how effectively they were at that.
I think the use of a blog, as long as it doesn’t become overly cumbersome, is a great way to engage the students in the material they are learning and to apply it in a way that reflects their personal opinions.
The use of a more obvious grading scale would have made the blogs less stressful. Often times I found myself spending excessive amounts of time on the blogs making them far too long in the fear of not getting that third point.
Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.
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