Evaluation for Extra Credit

Before RTF 305, I tried using Xanga when I was in middle school.  I used it to talk to my friends and to be artistic.  I thought it was cool to have my own web page with my own customizations.  The main focus of my blog was to talk about my day and talk about music.  The blogs for RTF on Blogger provided a new and different way to do homework.  I liked it because I could access it wherever I wanted from different computers.  Overall, the blog was not very difficult, being a somewhat experienced blogger.  I do think a blog is a weird concept especially when there is now Facebook and Myspace.  I can't imagine taking time to read someone's personal blog nowadays, but for school it is good to be able to access other classmate's blogs.  The blog prompts that were the most interesting were the ones where we found examples of concepts from the media.  Specifically, the dramatic style narration blog prompt because it prompted me to think of movies in a critical way rather than just as a mere audience member.  I recommend using blogs because it saves trees and allows easy access to assignments.  The only thing I would change is to give the prompt earlier in the week.