At first, I really thought blogging would not help at all. I really did not see the benefits of blogging. If I had questions I would have rather emailed professors or went to office hours. But I guess then, I was used to emailing and going to office hours I was skeptical of trying something new. Also, since everybody can view each other blogs, I guess I was more concerned more about how fellow classmates and Bud would react to the blog. I made sure that my blogs weren't asking "dumb" questions and only blogged about IT news that was interesting to me or applicable to what we were learning.
Looking back I think that I was too scared about how people would view my blogs and I didn't want to try something new. But over the semester, I tried to force myself to blog and the quick replies from Bud and fellow classmates was better than emails or going to OH. I kind of understand the "fun" and the usefulness of blogging now and wished I could have been less defensive at the get go.
If I have any suggestions, I would like to see students in the future to blog about anything at first, wether it be sports, problems, life etc and then some how weave in more and more project and class issues and less blogs about "anything."