Blogging for a school subject

Almost every time when I type my blog in front of my friends, they are curious about me writing blog. And when I tell them I'm actually writing blogs for my EN course, they are all pretty surprised.
(They are even more surprised when I tell them I have created a video and a game for EN :P)

In fact, writing blog entries is not quite new to me. I've experienced writing blogs when I was still in secondary one or two(more than 10 years!) The first one I used was the blog on hkflash. Users are allowed to draw their own pictures on their friends' board and blog is another function. After that, people shift to xanga. It is a more advanced kind of blog as people can add java script, music and customize their own blog with beautiful pictures and programming languages.

(As my VIP membership has already passed for a long time,
feel free to check out my friends' hkflash board if you're interested!
http://www.hkflash.com/gb/gb.asp?id=pighill)

Anyways, it's really nice to find the past memories from the blog.
And for now, I'm going write something about my blogging experience for my school subject.

It is quite a fresh idea for students to write blogs and share their ideas online freely. I am not very familiar with the case overseas, but it's definitely new for students in Hong Kong. It is not boring; we can insert whatever we want, e.g. pictures, videos, music, games. It became a lot more casual and a user-friendly platform for students. Students can choose whatever is related to the given topics and share their own favourite things. Moreover, we can meet someone who has similar interest on blogs (I found my classmate who are playing in a band and is interested in the show my society is organizing. How nice!). The commenting function does help a lot which sometimes we feel shy to talk about the topics in class with other unfamiliar classmates.

I sincerely hope that this idea can spread over other subjects which students can have a more "free" platform to express their ideas. But I also hope that if blogging has become more common, teachers won't make it too formal or it may lower the students' interest in blogging!