The Beauties of a blog

Julia Fusco
3/12/09
The beauties of a blog
Click “Unnh another blog. There’s no use for blogs all they do is give useless opinions on nothing important. Why in the world would I need a blog? There for people who need another piece of technology to go on to is there actually a use"?

Blogs are an online source where a person can post little blurbs on everyone and everything; from what’s fashionable, to songs they like, actors, gossip, what happening with the economy and the president. A person can have numerous blogs. Fore example, here at Constitution high students have a blog for their community service projects and one for all the other teachers that use blogs. This technological apparatus can help people great distances from one another communicate because anyone anywhere can read a blog. Every blog has background to choose from for the backdrop of each page. Are blogs useful? Should they be used in school?

Usually blogs aren’t allowed in schools there are good reasons for this too. Here at C.H.S use of blogs are applauded in classes. Some students like this idea more than others. One of the first reasons for supporting blogs is they are helpful to the environment. “I hate to waste paper and ink,” says miss Klose, the art teacher, also teachers can post work assigned to the students. While the students post works that the teachers assigned to them.

Second reason blogs are good to use in school is class mates can post comments on their friends blogs as critiques; this gives them feedback or ways to make their work better. Lastly teachers have an easier time checking homework nothing gets lost. Occasionally students get extra credit for posting their work on the blog.

Not every student approves using blog in school. Kate Chapman, a tenth grader who is neutral about blogs, says, “It depends on what the teachers want you to post. Everyone could read my work. I don’t mind posting from geometry.” Both Kate Chapman and Alex Haynes have had issues with their blog. “I’ve posted things more then once by accident ” Kate said, “With Mr. Romero I’ve posted a piece and it’s not there. Blog steals stuff from the Internet. With the teachers I give them an extra copy to be on the safe side Said Alex Haynes. Lakisha said, “teachers get more feedback from handing in work” Every one’s heard stories of people posting inappropriate things on the Internet. The first year there was one instance of a student leaving an inappropriate comment on another student's blog. I do have to remind students to only put their first name, to take off identifying photos.” Says Miss Thompson, the technology teacher at C.H.S.

There are ways to fix this problem. Students could email the work to the teachers. Or try to do things online while still giving feedback to the teachers. These are ways to fix some of the complaints of the students. Blogs are useful. A man named Nasim fekrat from Afghanistan is a reporter but he doesn’t report for a newspaper he blogs. So there is a use for blogs. C.H.S could communicate with the sister school on blogger.