1. What was your reaction to the online Blog Activity?
2. Are you having some difficulty configuring the use of Web Blogging? Explain.
3. Did the activity gave you deeper or broader understanding about the used of blogs? Why?
4. Did the activity increases or decreases you enthusiasm, willingness or effort to learn ore about technology? Why?
5. What important things have you learned fro this activity?
6. What generalization can you formulate with this activity?
Reflections!
Scott Gil C. Clara says:
Blog is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all types of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
Online blog activity is something new to me, I often heard it from my friends that it is something very fun, you are enjoying while learning. The activity alleviates my curiosity because it is something different on what I used to do- the paper and pen bustles. The idea is so captivating, I found it so interesting. It charms my adrenalin. Upon hearing the activity, I am so excited because it is an avenue for me, as a beginner, to have a deeper understanding of ethnical culture and I know it will develop my creativity, research and writing ability. The activity keyed up my initiatives for better technological and communication skills.
Web blogging is not an easy task for someone like me as a beginner. At first, I found it so difficult to customize, configure, modify and tailor the page but through the help of my friends, I’ve learned many things, I’ve learned little by little. Days pass by and it amazes me that I haven’t notice that I’m learning. Yes, it maybe difficult but all you have to do is to explore and get involved on the persisting changes in our environment. You just don’t have to be afraid of the changes, of exploring, and to try new things. As an implementer of learning, we should not confine ourselves in the four corners of the room but to take the opportunity to explore, create, innovate and share.
The activity gave me a deeper and broader understanding on the significance of web blogging. As you work on the blog, it allows you to discover and explore so many things. Online blogging teaches you to develop creativity as well as to enhance environmental awareness. Upon exploring, I’ve learned how to deal with it. I started to generate the value of innovation and to share. I’ve learned that blogging is an entry of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is of significant part of many blogs.
The activity increases my enthusiasm as well as my willingness or effort to learn ore about technology. As we’ve start blogging, I’ve learn things and it surprises me the accessibility of technology and its applications. I discovered many things and led me to picture out that it is something very fun, something that enhances learning. And it reminds me of the significance of technology on the continuing changes of our environment, I can get out of this. Everything can be made possible with the advances in technology added with the personal touch of the blogger.
Weblogging imparts learning. I’ve learned that as an implementer of learning, I should not confine myself on the four corners of the room but to get involved on the advancement of the technology. The activity gives me an opportunity to explore, create, innovate and to share. It reminds me of something new, something of more than a paper and pen learning that might bring good to me.
To sum it up, blogging is one of a valuable tool that may provide a deeper understanding on the advancement of the technology. It helps us to develop our creativity, research and writing ability, it enhances environmental awareness, leadership, social responsibility, initiatives as well as better technological and communication skills. It allows us to learn new things. This is actually a very fun experience- an experience to develop, enhance, explore and to be creative.
Kerra Shayne L. Asturias says:
Online blog for me is a next level activity for us as a student. Because for me blogging is like enhancing my knowledge not only in exploring the internet but of course enhancing my idea in sharing people what is all about symbiotic relationship which was our topic in blog. Because through blogging and the use of internet everything really possible. For me it is a very good idea to go blogging. It’ll serves as an eye-opener to me to evolve, or to move on to the next level of our life where we are now using internet to interact and to impart knowledge to other people. In short, blogging is a great help to every individual, especially to those who are dreaming of becoming an internet hero.
Before our teacher gave this activity to us, I have my own blog. I consider my blog as paperless diary. And what I wrote there was every detail of what happened to me and to my day. Blog for me also is my emotional expression.
But in a different way our professor gave a task to us to make a blog which is all about our major the biology. My blog is different from our blog. By the help of each member of our group we created it with a little bit difficulty but we all can handle it. We used to brainstorm on what to do and what to use to make our blog more interesting and beautiful to the people who will visit it.
Blogging is my pass time. But when we are creating it, it gave so much deeper understanding to me that I never expect blogging can do that. It was like imparting our knowledge to other and compiling all the ideas about symbiotic relationship and put it together so that people who are researching about it could just open one site which is our blog and read, leave a comment or watch a video related to the topic mention above in our blog.
It’s like my knowledge was stretch because of the blog that when we were doing it we all also learn something that is worth it.
Because blogging is a requirement to each group, we are force to do so. Each of the group members have their own task to do. Me as one of the web-designer as well as photo and video editor it really help a lot to me when it comes to the use of technology. Knowing the fact that my creation is to be published in the internet and many people around the world could possibly watch or see the videos and the photos I did and many people will visit our blog. I should also make all the effort, give all my best to make photos and videos as well as our blog more competitive than the other people who used to post and publish their work in the internet and in the blog.
I learn so much from this activity. I learn how to create videos, photo editing as well as web designing. Not only in blogging but also in making friends with my group mates which is really important to me. Understanding them and understanding me is also one. Being an open-minded and patient is also one of those things I learn in making blog. In any way, believe it or not I had so much fun and I enjoy a lot in making blog.
Well, for me it was fun. I consider it as one otwof those opportunities given to me to enhance my skills in terms of web-designing, photo and video editing. I had so much fun doing such activity like that. I never expect it, that we can use blog in imparting knowledge to other people.
Blog is indeed a challenging yet fun activity so far I encounter in my college life.
Rowell C. Tuquib says:
Blogging has been around for decades now but was only made popular by the year 2000. Since then, online diaries and forum with 'threads' emerge as a new wave in communication and feedback industry and now known to us as blog (web + log). This now is the image of dynamism when used in alliance with education.
Upon hearing that we're actually gonna have an online blogging activity in our Educational Teachnology course , I was ecstatic and I said to myself, "Wow! This whole blogging idea sounds nice. I can finally put some of my creative juices back in action." I was a blogger myself way back 2008 but suddenly due to some circumstances, I failed to update my old blog. But now, with this activity, I can definitely continue on my passion of writing my thoughts and expressing my self through customization online.
So I was not really a newbie in this industry of web blogging. I've been aquainted with this since I was in highschool using only the naive friendster blog. At first, I was kind of confused with all these codes - HTML and CSS (I'm not an IT student). They all seem pretty geeky to me. But in due time, I was able to learn my own way. Configuration and formatting is pretty much complicated and indeed difficult but will turn out easy through practice and exploration.
The web blogging activity certainly made its impact to me. I was introduced to so many things that an online blog has to offer (it's an online journal plus more). My understanding on blog was deepen and broaden. I learned new things about the blog and it's helpful feature and potential as a teacher and student's best friend.
I never imagined that writing, posting your articles and cuztomizing the blog would be a fulfilling activity. Its as if I am born to blog this way. It has breathe new life to the blogger that's slowly dying inside me. Given the fact that our works will be seen by the whole online community, this activity increased my willingness to embrace technology and it increased my enthusiasm, as well.
I learned a lot from this activity. It gave me the chance to explore, create and share things particularly with my knowledge on ecological interactions. Aside from the acquisition of knowledge that somehow made me internet-savvy, it also taught me once again of the value of team work and cooperation. Without my groupmates - their A+ efforts and time - this blogging activity would not be a success.
Now you knew my thoughts on the activity. Blogging is a great tool, useful in that sense, when used in education. It will definitely give individuals the opportunity to develop their creativity and critical thinking. Overall, Its has been a worthwhile experience.
Jennifer C. Estigoy says:
A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Our online activity has a lot of advantage for us, this is not only an activity just for an accomplishment to our subject, but this would allow each one of us to be vigilant enough to what a technology can do. This blog activity may also serve as a door to any opportunities and to share our knowledge to everybody. In doing such activity like this may be a great favor for us, because we are not only giving a chance to explore the world of technology, discussing the topic assigned to us, posting some articles and writing about the person behind the blog, but we are enhancing our self in terms of technology advancement and gaining additional knowledge from it. If we would analyze it further you would realize that doing a blog activity is a big help for all your viewers, but this would also depends to what is your blog all about. Since our blog activity is educational, and then I can say that this is very significant for our viewers. They could get some knowledge and at the same time they could post some of their comments about to what was being posted in the blog. I am grateful that we had given this kind of activity through this we did isolate our self anymore to a traditional way of doing activity but we are putting our self now into the new and advance world.
At first, i find it hard to understand or confirue web blogging because the first time I used it I don’t know what are the applications or features that were in there and how to apply. Tumblr.com and blogspot.com is the Web that we both used in doing this blog. But we find the blogspot.com easier to use when making a blog. As time goes by it becomes easier for us to enhance our blog using this site because it has a clear instruction and good feature in making a blog. We can easily edit and post the materials or activity that we want to put in our there.
Doing this activity is not an easy task. You have to make sure that all you have posted are right since we all have certain topic that was assigned to us. And our blog must be filled up of information and application to be more attractive and useful for the viewers. This activity is really a tough assignment that we would undertake. However, despite of everything this still increases my enthusiasm and effort to learn more about technology. I had a great time dealing this activity and it made me realized that technology had done a lot of things for us in many ways. Knowing that it’s not only you that will benefit from this activity, but also the other people that will view your blog you will really feel relieve because despite the hardship that you experience this would help other people and entertain them. I appreciate this activity and increase my willingness to learn more about technology.
The most important lesson I’ve learned from this activity is that you need to know what are things you need to post and if these things beneficial for others. I have learned to use more precise words which can represent what I say in a better way. This helps me to organize my thoughts and to be disciplined writing on regular basis, contributing to the blogosphere.
Blogging also helped me improve my knowledge and understanding of the issues related to my niche. Since I started blogging, it seems also started lifting and developing the excellence of my life. Throughout this experience I found out that I can do better than what I knew I can. This is not only for me, but also for the others for future use.
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. Blogging is a book that you are about to publish where you can write everything you want to post on there. It has the viewer and the editor. You can gain knowledge from it and at the same time you’re sharing your thoughts and ideas to your viewers. It is not just a simple task that needs to accomplish. Nevertheless, it is a great achievement on our part which widens our imagination into a big world where technology is our collaborator. Blogging is not only a matter of posting anything on your page, but we need to bear that whatever we will post there has a purpose and it should be beneficial for yourself for other people. This activity is actually helps me to express myself and to know what are the things I want to do. It actually made me realized that there are a lot of things that we need to discover and learn. And blogging is one of them. Other may just say that is it just a waste of time and money, but when you are able to start it I tell you, you would love to do it all over again.
Sarah Mae D. Consolacion says:
Dynamisms makes the worlds go round. It’s wonderful to have experience it in Edtech 105. The subject simply recognizes the trend of the present time alongside the subjects logical responding to it.
The creation of the blog contribute so much to the filling up not only of the still spacious room in my mind for biological science learning but the still un mastered world of the computer manipulation as well. My experience in making articles, planning and composing all the necessary paper works as the editor in-chief of the blog enables me to grow more accountable than the days that have passed. Nevertheless, the experience wasn’t a uniform fun. Moments of stress, exhaustion and under pressure go in perfect harmony with the glee. However, the bothered not that much for I believe that they are but a parcel pilgrimage. But even if this was the case, fun still outweighs strain. Laughter’s and bliss’s still over rule not mentioning that my relationship toward my team mates was made stronger.
If extent of efficiency, acquisition, is to be gauge in this endeavour, it would be full honour and pride will I say that my level of efficiency today is greater than the previous day. Thus, I will always remember that once I created a blog with the aim of relaying to viewers vital ecological matters alongside the utilization and application of necessary computer skills.
It’s splendour indeed!
