Blogs

This is a required blog so I’m just gonna get it out of the way right off the bat.

Mr. Ayers, our AP Lang teacher wants a whole bunch of feed back from everyone about blogging and all that good stuff, so here goes:

I think there are pros and cons to blogging. Let me start with the pros. It gets the students to write a little every week and experiment with certain types of techniques we may have learned recently. It lets them figure out what they like and dislike and get a little more comfortable with different techniques. Those are the obvious pros.

Now to mask those pros with some cons. I personally dislike blogging. It causes frustration and uses up time that I would much rather be using for something more productive like watching TV or hanging with friends. Now that may not seem like a productive way to use my time if you’re at all like my mother, but it keeps me happy and sane so what’s there to complain about? The blogs, however, do not do a great deal in keeping my sanity in check. It’s so frustrating to have to sit there and pull something out of thin air to blog about. There are only so many show choir competitions and events we attend to rave or complain about and as of right now, show choir is basically my life. Nice segue into my next complaint.

Blogs take up many of my precious minutes in a week. As I mentioned, I’d much rather be doing something else. With show choir season in full boom, I have little time to spend with my friends, much less my family. I’d rather spend that time making relations with people and having fun.

It’s not that I have ADD, but I get distracted extremely easily when I get on the computer to do school work. It’s like the internet is against me. On those little nifty side bars on every single page there are different websites to go to that look so inviting. It’s like they’re crying out to me, “Katrina! I hate you and I want you to procrastinate further. Looky here! Here’s some pretty cool websites to check out with cute clothes, funny videos, and cute little animals that say really funny things! Go there! It’ll be worth it! Blogging doesn’t matter!” What can I do when an opportunity like that presents itself? Not go there? I don’t think so! Everyone has to admit they’ve been distracted by those devious little sidebar attractions. If not, cudos to you. You’ve obviously got this whole “priority” concept down. If we were to go back to writing notebook entries, that may help me out a little. I could put myself in my room and not be so easily distracted.

I’ve never taken the initiative to actually sit down and make a pros and cons list, but it seems to me that if one would do that for blogs, cons would win. It may be because I don’t see all the pros in my frustration with the cons, but as far as I’m concerned, cons dominate.