EDUBLOGGING
Edublogging! A word that gives me
goose bumps! Maybe because I am more of a reader than a writer. I love reading
books, magazines, newpapers, well except for our school books haha (half
meant). But reading is different from writing; your vocabulary must be wide,
you must be a quick thinker and a good analyzer. You must have a big
personality to keep your blogs creative, fun and unique.
So when our first topic was given, it took me days to pull
up my blog. My motto back then is, “basta may maipass lng,” we were given
couple of weeks, but I really didn’t made an effort to improve my blog. And so
now, looking back I’ve realized the importance of edublogging, and the power of
it.
What is edublogging? And what have I learned from it?
Edublogging is the power to receive and to give. For my
5months in the world of blogging, I have learned:
1. to SAY YES TO UNIQUENESS AND NO TO STEALING!
Plagiarism is a controversial word; even one of our senators
was accused of plagiarizing a blogger/writer about the RH bill. Plagiarizing is
like copying during examination, or stealing someone’s money, gadgets, or any
of their things. Those people worked hard for their achievements, studied hard
for their examination, and there you are, in just a second you have stolen
their money, and stolen their answers! (have some dignity! J)
Plagiarism is a controversial word; even one of our senators
was accused of plagiarizing a blogger/writer about the RH bill. Plagiarizing is
like copying during examination, or stealing someone’s money, gadgets, or any
of their things. Those people worked hard for their achievements, studied hard
for their examination, and there you are, in just a second you have stolen
their money, and stolen their answers! (have some dignity! J)
*AND FOR THE RECORD, DO NOT COPY DURING EXAM! You may not
graduate as a cum laude, but being able
to graduate without cheating, is something you can and should be proud
of! ;)
2. to SHARE-A-THING
I was given a privilege to learn,
to study, to be equipped with many information, and it is shame if I alone
could use them. Some people may not have the chance to know what we know, maybe
because they don’t have the capacity to go to school or because they are taking
other courses, so we should share what we know and what we have, because we’ll
never know, someday we too might learn something from them.
*PAY OR SHARE IT FORWARD! ;)
3. that BLOGGING IS A POWERFUL TOOL
Our thoughts, our words, and our ideas are too powerful to be
wasted on something evil. Through blogging, we may change someone’s opinion on
some topics, we may encourage them to do something, and we may also stop them
on doing things (e.g. topics about diets and exercises). Mrs. Gaces, our Clinical Chemistry professor,
always reminds us that in everything, serving GOD must be our first objective.
So before you post, examine carefully what you have written, and be mindful to the people who may read our blogs. In everything, may we always aim to improve
humanity and not to destroy it.
To end this, I would like to remind you again that SERVING
GOD must always be on our top. We may be student, teacher, mother, father,
brother, sister, engineer, doctor, or medtech right now, but be reminded that
GOD created us first, so we must be His children and creation first before
anything else.
Whatever
may be your task, work at it heartily, as [something done] for the Lord and not
for men (Colossians 3:23)
