As a refresher, this blog was created as an assignment for a class on Ontario Politics. The objective was to create an active blog looking at current events and issues in Canadian politics, detailing personal opinion.
Overall, I enjoyed the assignment. I enjoyed having a little extra motivation to read the newspaper and keep up with current events in an otherwise busy time when that might get pushed aside for other things. The same issues were reported on by other members of the class in their blogs, which opened up a ton of different opinions and viewpoints on the same subject. Blog posts didn't take much suffering to produce due to their length. It was fairly easy to write small commentaries on different subjects.
At first I was a little apprehensive to posting my opinion where other people could read them, especially other politics students that might have a better idea of what they're talking about, but logical arguments got logical replies, and even if they didn't agree I could stand by my opinion.
The thing I didn't appreciate the most was the extention of the due date twice. I feel I made an effort to be prepared for the original due date, and having it move back several weeks made me have to readjust my plan. Notice about the second pushback in due date wasn't passed around very clearly, and I had even brought the assignment with me to hand in.
It would have been nice to have a bit more freedom with the overall topics as well. Obviously this is a class in Ontario politics, so it makes sense if the blogs should focus around that topic as well, but there was more than one occasion where I would've liked to post on a topic at either the federal or the local level.
Overall it was an assignment that I enjoyed much more than a literary review type paper. It allowed for the best type of learning about Ontario politics...what's actually going on!
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