Benefits of Blogging
| September 3, 2004 @ 8:48 am | Filed under Blogging |
In Weblogs in Higher Education, Ken Smith talks about what blogging can do for students or anyone in terms of bringing about ideas that may have never been written down.
…the practice of writing each day seems to act as an aid to invention. If we write 20 or 30 times a month, we will have thoughts that would not have materialized without the blogger’s writerly habits of mind.
I actually wish that more students in my classes maintained blogs where they post their ideas from the classes they are taking. As a student I enjoy hearing and reading what other students have to say about the topics of the course. As stated by Ken, ideas that may have never materialized any other way show up in blogs and maintain a unique way of thinking and expressing those thoughts.
In my CS 462 class, Dr. Windley has each group keep a blog that will be used to keep track of processes and other thoughts about our projects. Not only will it help to have the steps we used to build our projects in case of a computer failure, but it will allow the students to see other groups ideas and thoughts about the projects. I think this is a great idea and would love to see it more in my other classes.