Communication Beyond the Classroom

Throughout the last few months, our management class has undertaken a new way of learning and communicating with each other by ways of blogging. While students in other management classes are forced to go home and write a lengthy paper, our class was given the opportunity to creatively express our thoughts in a much more meaningful way. Blogging assignments to me were a lot more beneficial and I actually looked forward to them more so then having to do a paper or other type of project. As someone who is kind of quiet in class, it gave me another way to be able to communicate with my classmates on the material learned. It also provided me with the opportunity to get to get to learn more about my classmates and discover that many of us are in the same boat in certain instances. Blogging was also a creative way to express ourselves about the material we have learned and the activities we performed. Perhaps down the road I won't remember exactly what I learned in management class but what I will remember is the egg planning activity, jello inventions, and drawing shapes. Writing about these activities in my blog helps me remember which aspect of management we used when performing these tasks and helps me to better remember the steps taken to get to the final outcome. I have previously heard of blogging but have never used it or didn't really know too much about it, but I certainly have learned about it and wish it was used in other classes to creatively express yourself. I think the blog should definitely be a component of this course as it should be for most other courses as well. It really gives students the opportunity to not only communicate with other students, but the opportunity to learn from them and get new ideas. After this course, I think I still might continue blogging and hope more people will also.