Using a computer to turn in assignment rather then pen and paper I feel is great! It is so much better than having to worry about losing papers misplacing them, forgetting it or just worrying about making up an excuse as to why you forgot your homework. Students are just sloppy and careless with their work. It would be a lot easier and helpful to the teacher to read an essay or for students writing assignments on the computer rather than have a student turn in a sloppy piece of paper.
A negative about blogging would have to be that it is very easy to get behind on work, for instance all the blogs are weekly but not actually do that week, so especially for me a procrastinator I get behind on my blogs and they pile up. I know I am not the only student that it happens too.
There are also other reasons either your computer isn't working at the moment or you’re crammed with other homework or have an emergency and can not get to a computer. I feel that is the only downfall of these blogs or assignments over the computer. Everyone at a point sometimes tends to put things off and procrastinates. These blogs are to be done by us the students weekly, they are graded if done but not really checked to see if there done weekly, sometimes I get lazy or I am just forgetful nod I don't do blogs the week they should be done; So for the next week when we get new blogs to do I end up having to do extra from the previous week. I get behind and just let my blogs pile up. on the other hand much teachers don't make us right too much, I feel weekly blogs and articles help us improve our writing and challenges us to write and come up with ideas about topics we may not be familiar with or don't understand.
It can effect our grades in a positive and negative way, in a positive way it can give you easy point or grades by just writing about a topic you discussed in class or a topic you may already know about; however it can also effect your grades in a negative way students may actually do the work but may not meet the requirements for example these weekly articles are suppose to have 600 -1000 words I feel it is hard to write so many words on a topic you may not find interesting or even understand. I get bored with the topic or just don’t know what to write about and give up and ether postpone it or just not do it at all. I am sure I’m not the only student who thinks or does things that way.
In conclusion I feel blogging has good things that can affect students in a positive way but also can affect students in a negative way. I feel we should still blog but maybe in a different way or change up the weekly articles or just the topics, the blogs are not too much to ask for at all although sometimes it may be difficult for a student to get to a computer or have difficulties with getting it to work.
