It is all about BLOG!

The Gist of the Blogging and Trainee Teachers’ Professional Development Article

Based on the reading on the Blogging and Trainee Teachers’ Professional Development article it can be summarized that blogging is a reflection for professional development that provides the trainee teachers a first-hand experience of using computer-mediated applications and develops their confidence in using the Internet as a resource for teaching and learning.

My understanding about Blogging

A blog is a web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Blogging has brought interest in learners to write because it urges them to write again and again. From this, it is clearly can be seen that blogging is a method to express people’s thought freely without using any verbal communication. This is a very effective way for those who are not confident enough to convey and express their thoughts and feelings. Perhaps in verbal communication, when you express your thought some outspoken people might object your opinion easily in front of you and of course it is such a shame for you. However, blogging is different. Yes, it is true that some people might comment on your thought but doesn’t it more polite and comfortable way? So, now can you see the significance of blogging? Clearly, blogging is significant on its own way. Here I have listed a few significances or advantages of blogging:
· Blogging urges people to write as well as me and this will facilitate the writing skill to be improved.
· Blogging is a medium to express thoughts, feelings, experiences, dreams, ideas, and desires freely and it is helping in enhancing our self-confidence as well.
Applications of blogging:
· Blogging is using in education. It has become prevalent in facilitating on campus course as what I am learning now in UKM.
· Unbelievable! You can make money in blogging. Blogging can be applied in a business area too. For instance, you can publish your business freely in a form of forum or online discussion.
· Besides, it can be used for your personal diary. You can freely express your miserable, anger, delighted, sad and whatever feelings you really want to release.
· Blogging enlarges your communication as you are sharing opinions, comments, knowledge and information.
However, everything that is created by human being has its own boon and bane. Positively, blogging is beneficial to the society nowadays. If we think deeply, blogging itself does not bring any disadvantage to us. Nevertheless, it is just us the human being that make the blogging activity unbeneficial. Here are some the advantages of blogging:
· Most people do not have very much to say and unable to write down their ideas in a clear manner as if that they have been forced to do so.
· The people who have most time to write have least to say, and the people who have most to say do not have enough time to write. Thus, the real expertise lays hidden and the quality of information that you get can be denied.
· Blogs are easy to start but hard to maintain. Writing coherently is one of the most difficult and time consuming task for a human being to undertake.
My Experience on Blogging

As to be frankly, at first I felt blogging such a waste of time and I am bored with it. But this because I do not know what is blogging all about and I found it is complicated to create a blog as well as to maintain it. However, it is actually such an interesting activity that teaches me to be a creative and innovative person. Of course, it does help me to improve my writing and typing skills. By the way, my typing skill is getting better. For writing aspect, it teaches me how to write a communicative writing. For me, the writing in the blog must be very communicative in order not to make the readers bored and to create a conversation environment. Besides, it facilitates me to be more alert and up-to-date with the social issues around me so that I can convey my opinion in a very informative way. It also enhances my language. When I get to know further about blogging, I feel so excited as I am learning something new that makes me more aware to this cyber world. One more thing is I am so excited to see my writing in the web. I feel proud of myself as from zero knowledge about blog and doing it without any interest, by hook or by crook I still manage to accomplish it. This is really valuable knowledge that I have got in my life. So, what are you waiting for? Come on, try and feel the venture!!!