• Did I blog frequently enough, and receive enough feedback, to become more comfortable with this mode of writing?

Yes, I think I did. Blogging was a fun way of breaking down my thoughts about things, and I think, in a way, it’s a lot of what my inner dialogue sounds like, just put to paper and distilled down to a single train of thought. I also enjoyed reading comments, if only to see what people thought about a topic compared to myself. I wasn’t really looking for feedback, as the type of blogging I did was in the spirit of breaking down my own ideas about a topic or simply just sharing the topic’s information or thought-provoking points for others to learn if they wanted.

  • Aside from feedback, did the process help me develop particular writing capabilities?

I don’t think this helped me develop any writing capabilities, but it was an interesting change from what I usually write.

  • What are different ways you might want to see blogging incorporated into a college course in the future (eg, what did I do wrong?  or, how could another course you’re currently enrolled in use blogging effectively?)

I enjoyed the way blogging was implemented. I think deciding my own topics made it more fun, and deciding when I could write, how much, and what to include or embed was freeing. It was nice to decide how much effort I put in. Sometimes I felt passionate and eager to blog. Other times, I was busy and only able to blog after I had done my other work and rested. I appreciated this openness and the two collective due dates for the different blogs. I think another course using blogging would also have to allow blogs to be on the personal side to let students explore ideas and opinions. I could see a Polisci class having blogs where people just talked about issues they thought were important, what they wanted to learn about, or how they thought political discourse should change.