People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. What does this mean? How can one photo or painting of something be worth a thousand words? Well let me share how it is that a picture can be worth a thousand words. Well it's because a photo or picture can be left up to interpretation. That is anyone can look at a picture and give it whatever meaning it is that they want it to represent. When looking at a picture haven't you ever wondered what it was the author was trying to get across? There usually is a reason for the painting whether it be to represent a picture of a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman or something cool like an airplane. But when looking at a picture you should be trying to analyze why it is that the painter decided to use what colors they used and why they painted what they painted. You should be wondering what it is that the painter wants you to feel when painting a picture.

When a painter paints something they are trying to portray what they are feeling about that particular item. For example a painter might be painting a picture of a war scene like you commonly see in history text books. So the painter is going to go into great detail with the people's faces and the expressions that they are portraying. Also he might use colors that are somewhat bleak in comparison to other colors that they might use. This would be used to portray that the scene and what was happening at the time was very sad and hopeless. Obviously if they used bright colors or went into great detail with the grass and clouds it would leave the viewer wondering what it was they wanted them to focus on. This is how a picture can portray a thousand words. It's because anyone can look at it and say what it means to them or what they think the painter was trying to get across.

I think that writing blog assignments are a much better way to understand this class and understand the power of using a blog. When writing a blog it is much easier to just start jotting down your ideas and it allows for students to easily cite things. When writing a blog you can immediately hyperlink a word which can lead to citations, pictures or even videos. It is much quicker than writing a traditional essay and allows students to learn how to use things like hyperlinks and naturally forces students to learn two things at once, writing and blogging. The format of a blog is much easier and more personal than a traditional essay. It lets you have fun with the writing assignment.

The blog assignments did relate to the class topics and course objectives. It did so by causing students to create something that could be viewed world wide. It allows the student to realize the affect that a single blog or the ideas that person has affect others. This can be seen in how students see people from around the world commenting on their blog. It also allows the students to realize how many people they can reach through their blog and the power of blogging. Because when you are making an argument you can hyperlink what ever you want and people can see with the click of a button an entire website that is backing you up.

The non-text elements of blogging actually forced me to learn up on blogging. I checked out other people's blogs to see how they blog and what they use. I also looked at the popular blogs to see what it was that was attracting so many people to read that persons blog. It also helped me in learning in class, when we were talking about the usage of Internet and how it was that people reach other people I could understand through the making of my own blog. When talking about analyzing commercials blogs helped me to realize what other people thought of commercials through reading their blogs. Also I could understand what certain groups of people thought. You can "follow" people on a blog and this is interesting because that means you can see what a group or sect of people might think about a certain subject. So if you were making an advertisement and wanted to see what that certain demographic of people were looking for you could just look up that blog and see what people though about it. So blogging caused me to learn the importance of technology in the world and how people use it to vent ideas, memories, and political views to just name a few.