Connecting Learning and Blogging

In this generation, the internet is just another tool to be connected, so it seems fit to use it in our learning techniques. Blogs are a current tool to connect our ideas with other authors ideas in one place. I can write how I feel in my blog without being judged because its my space to write. Another way to share ideas is to link your blog with other people, so I've linked my blog to everyone in my class. This helps me learn because I can get feedback by reading their blogs and seeing how they blog; being a beginner blogger it's nice to have other examples to look at.

Blogging connects your thoughts to reading with inserting links into the text. If I used a source or read something I thought was cool and wanted to share, I could link it to my post so that others could revert to what I read. This also allows them to develop their own opinions about the reading and write about it in their own blog. A Blogger across the country could blog about something that I wrote about and then we could start a conversation through our blogs about it.
The benefits of blogging is sharing our opinions about various topics with people all over the world wide web. The only downfall I can see is that it's all on the computer which limits exploring the real world and talking to people face to face. We lose the personal aspect of it, but gain a lot more through internet acess. Another downfall is for people who are better speaking their mind and can't type their thoughts out as well have a disadvantage blogging. So the good outway's the bad in my opinion.

Another reason blogging is an advantage of learning is that I'm so much more accustomed to sitting at my computer and checking the news and so forth, than I am to pick up the newspaper and read it. The newspaper companies know that the internet is more common, which is why they've begun sites online. They lose a lot of money from the lack of interest in this era, but have started to make changes to get profit from online newpapers, such as a charge for reading stories. Young people are more inclined to go online to read the news because the internet has a way of summarizing and making the important/interesting news more direct and in my face, almost forcing me to read it. We are a much more GO GO GO society, I for one, hate wasting time sitting down and reading, which is sad, but true. I'd so much rather check my email, facebook and read the news in 10 minutes tops.