Blog.

I've had blogs before attending RTF305, and am currently using one now; however, the focus of the blogs were for personal entertainment purposes only, not for much public use. The positive aspects of using blogs in the course are that it is easier for students to feel less pressured this way to write something completely formal and research paper-styled. This way, it's easier for students to really relay what they learned about the subject at hand. There were not really any issues with using this blog to complete assignments because the blog were simple to understand. The difficulty of most of the blogs were pretty simple; the only ones I really had trouble with were the globalization one and the one about the studio system. For the most part, they were pretty interesting because they allowed you to choose your topics within a range of given topics. I would recommend using a blog as part of a supplement, not in replacement of essays or research papers (but it's more understandable with a class as large as RTF305), because you still should have the formal paper aspect of the class. As far as blogging goes, there's not much you can change to improve it, I think.

I use Tumblr! :)