A Good Teaching Tool?

I've been considering blogs and blogging. Then, I was asked what I thought about them as a teaching tool for an English class; what are the pros and cons of blogs being used in teaching. Should they be used? Would they be used the way the teacher thinks they should be?

My last blog was about how I sometimes found myself slacking off doing the blog assignments or just being lazy in my writing. I have talked to a few of my classmates and they have slacked off on their blogging as well. For the most part, the worst part is remembering that you needed to do it. Tese are probably the only drawbacks to having blogs as an assignment.

I really like to blog. It's a good release to just spout off about my opinions about a variety of subjects. Blogging has also made me think on a different level of writing because it is a different media to write in. I think that, when you look through my blogs, you can see that I've grown as a writer. Not that I growing by leaps and bounds but there is an improvement. Blogging has helped me, personally, as a writer.

I never really received any feedback on my blogs. There was one against a movie that I had recently seen, but I do not consider the response as feedback because all it did was bash the movie and praising an anime that I've never heard of. Maybe if I had more responses to my writing, I'd improve quicker.

Overall, I think that blogging is a good teaching aid for an English class because this is part of our medial world and we all need to communicate on the various levels that are available to writers. I would like my English teacher to not only keep this as part of the curriculum, but suggest it to other English teachers. Blogs are a good tool for different writing skills.