My first blog entry since... uh.

The last time I had a blog was probably in my junior year of high school, so this should be interesting.

Anyway, it's clear that within the past decade the internet has changed the way we live, work, and learn, but I think it has reached a whole new level of involvement in our lives when professors start assigning blogs for homework.  Students and professors alike have begun to use the internet as a teaching, learning, and networking tool like never before.  Last semester, in "the Press in America", Professor Howard Good required us to respond to questions related to the texts we were reading in an online blog.  The benefits of using a blog allowed us to maintain discourse even when we were not in class; we could read the answers of other students and respond, as well as read the input of our professor, who often contributed to advance the discussion or change the question.  We also had access to a variety of resources; Prof. Good often updated a list of links that offered articles, videos, and songs that enhanced and contributed to our course work.  

So this semester, I have to keep a blog for both my Web Design course (which is this blog) and one for my internship.  I'm not sure where I'll find the time to do it, but, we'll see.