academic blogging.

1.)When asked to blog about something I feel as thought I'm being given a template to express my creative opinions and arguments in a very public way. Writing a paper essay is similar but, for some reason, I feel much more limited when i have to write an essay knowing that only one or two people will be reading it. Yes, a blog is more public, more eyes to see my flawed arguments, but it gives me a reason to try so much harder when I write. There is even an environmental friendly results of blogging. There is no paper or ink! So the need to waste those resources are in very low demand which i am all for. So all around, I do prefer blogging to traditional paper essays.
2.)The selection given to me for blog posts each week were always very easy to choose from there were at least one or two topics that I felt I could thoroughly respond to. Almost all of the blog topics were relevant to the weeks discussions and felt I could use the weeks material in the posts if need be. A requirement that we were expected to have was at least one Hyperlink embedded into our posts. This made it easy to give any explanations or extra information that didn't seem "common knowledge" for the reader. Or to provide an opposing side to our arguments made it difficult to completely support our points. Either way , I felt the class materials and choices for blog topics were more than sufficient to help me passionately argue any point that I felt needed to be made.
3.)The non_ text elements of blogging didn't seem to phase me that much. Sure it was a little out of the ordinary for me not not sit in a lecture or memorize a text book. I felt more apart of the weeks topics when i could discuss them with my teacher and classmates weather it be in the class or on my blog. I didn't seem to struggle or felt that it took away from the knowledge obtain during my semester.