If Blogs Are For Nerds, Then Call Me Urkel

I originally entered this blogging experience with the notion that those who posted blogs were people who couldn't get others in the real world to pay attention to their rants. However, I have found this to be a positive experience. Although I find myself barely cutting the deadlines of blog posts, due to limited time, I really enjoyed speaking with people I may not have had the opportunity to within class time. It also gave me some insight to various people that I had certain perceptions of, sometimes changing my perception, and other times reinforcing what I originally felt. I definitely enjoyed the suggestions for solutions to my management problems, and positive reinforcement from my peers in other matters.

I think the assignments related to class activities really did drive in the points of what we were learning and allowed us to match experience to the textbook definition, in areas we may not have realized that there was a phrase or word for what we were doing. I like the fact that we were forced to analyze the activities past their initial meaning, and think this provided a helpful introduction for what we were learning.

I like the idea that the Professor's blog was a way to get deeper into the subject of management, and considered it almost a more-interesting-appendix to the class material. In fact, I wish some of these types of articles and postings would be added to the required textbooks to spice them up a bit. I would like to see more posts, but would like for the reply comment to be voluntary. I found myself really searching for words to reply back to the Professor in some of these blogs, and would most likely enjoyed posting more if I only had to do it when I found it necessary. I feel the same way about the replies to some of the student's blogs. From reading some of my comments, I am sure some students feel the same. I often received these sort of programmed responses that you can tell were only generated because of necessity. I understand the need for required replies, because they do stimulate some really interesting conversation, so I guess I look at them like the really off-the-wall ideas we would throw out in the brainstorming process, but that helped work our way to a great innovation.

Overall, the blog was a creative way to engage astudents in the material. Although I dislike some aspects, I believe they are necessary to achieve all there is to gain from the experience. So keep it up!