Bienvenida!

I have been encouraging my students to write a blog and as a start I made it as their requirement for my Technical Writing class. I know, some of them were not pleased, but what choice do they have when one blog entry is equivalent to 20 points of their quiz (I haven't told some of them about this, but I will this week.. XD).

No, I am not being ruthless. I am just trying to help. ^_^

So, what's with blogging anyway? A lot of them might be wondering why I am asking them to setup one. For now I know they can't still see the essence of blogging. I am aware of the fact that most of them despise writing especially when it is in English - an attitude that is honestly alarming because writing is just one of the most important human activities. True that not all humans are born to be writers, but all humans are born to communicate and writing is one of the means of communication.

But why blogging? The answer is very simple --- I am just exploiting the existence of internet. Since most of the students are so hooked with it, why not make use of it, right? Besides, I think they would prefer a blog over a technical writing journal (or am I just assuming too much? hahaha!). More than that, if they can update their Facebook accounts every day, why not blog something about what they have learned at school?

Well, I just hope that after this semester they would grasp the importance of writing (or blogging). I hope that they would grasp the importance of being able to communicate through penning down what they have to express. I hope that they would grasp the importance of being able to put down into writing the information that they acquired from their studies. And I hope that they would be able to grasp the importance of being able to convey their thoughts and ideas to other people.