Blog Reflection

   While I have blogged before, or more accurately attempted to start up the skeleton of my own blogs, they've never come to anything because I either became too frustrated trying to figure out how to best manage the templates to utilize the material I had, especially with mixed media, or I'd just feel annoyed that I would get sidetracked and forget about them for long periods of time.  They can be a bit time consuming, especially to do well, and I never found an avenue to commit the time to them that I should have liked.  In this case at least the template was rather user friendly for the simpler requirements of the course, though in all fairness the templates for the blog pages have likely improved quite a bit in the years since I tried to start up my own blogs in the first place.  If they were all this easy and domain space all free I might be inclined to do it more, but I'm heavy into customization so the likelihood I might find something agreeable there isn't altogether conceivable.  I'm just not much of a blog type.

  This would be a convenient way to gather input from students, collect assignments in a mutual spot, and thanks to timestamps and other little features it would at least be easy to keep track of submissions and other minor factors, but it also feels like the temptation with it is to have it become another social media outlet rather than an academic exercise, but then again maybe that's not a bad thing.  If I had to use it though it would probably just be in response to assignments or as a paper-free alternative for some students to turn in reports or submit simple presentations rather than do anything more detailed in chronicling, at least until blogging gives me more of a reason to incorporate it.  The most difficult part was honestly just the research, everything else is pretty simple if you know how to drag files and create the links, otherwise not much work to it at all.  I can see the overall value of it but as it stands it's not quite my time to crawl out of my shell and find the joy in it that other hardcore bloggers seem to.