The first reading of the semester seems to be an attempt to prove why it is necessary in this day and age to use blogging as a form of education. There are some very good points to this argument, not least of which is the fact that the outside world is moving onto this new age of the internet whether the education world is or not. I think that the idea of going through this (educational blogging) in order to get us into a good space for future employment, particularly in the media industry, definitely makes sense.

Some points show that it will be easier for teachers to keep track of whether their students are doing the readings or not as they are expected to blog about them. This first blog seems to be going in a vicious cycle, i’m reading the reading so I can write a blog about its topic, and the topic is that it is useful to blog about readings to show teachers that you have done the reading . . . which is about blogging . . .

Another element I’ll put up to discussion is the idea of networking between each others blogs during our study and how public our work is in this new style of assessment. There is a valid point in the reading which states we are aloud to look at each others blogs so we can see where we are with the rest of the students. The hypothesis was made that someone who isn’t putting out as much work might see a higher standard of work from another student and therefore try and better themselves on what they’ve seen. I would think that, apart from the obvious fact that there might be a few people that just copy the majority of what they see from others, the entirety of students, if cross referencing, would create a completely unwavering level of marks across all students. Personally, I would prefer a more private method of marking; purely in the the sense that a student would typically want to stand out from the crowd. Nevertheless here is my  blog on the first reading; all scavengers please enjoy.

Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media education: a Beginning.” Australian Screen Ed.41 (2006): 66-9