12 students lean over their computers. Some stare at their computer screens in focus, others joke, "blogging is sooo fun!" Fun or not, our teacher just assigned us to write one blog before class ends.
This is Advanced News Writing and as part of our course, we're writing five blogs every two weeks. Topics run the gamut from human rights and street harassment to weekend parties and issues in athletics.
One of my favorite things about this experience is reading other people's ideas and thoughts; I may not know a lot about baseball or football, but reading Luke's blog allows me to keep up with the big events. Even though we pride ourselves as being a very active campus, not everyone can be at every event. It really allows me to learn about things happening on our campus through other's eyes.
As for myself, one of my favorite parts of this assignment has been being able to catalogue my thoughts and have an outlet with which to write. Sometimes something will come up where I'll be more comfortable writing my feelings or opinions rather than saying them. This blog has definitely given me an outlet for that as well.
I think in the future this should definitely be kept for the course, but maybe give students a set number of blogs to have by the end of the course and have "check in" assignments. While at first I thought 5 blogs every two weeks was nothing, it's proven to be quite difficult now that my semester has really kicked into gear. I wish I would have written more when I had the time, rather than stressin to get them done on top of many other assignments.
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