In the article titled Fred Thompson Posts Ideas Online for Potential White House Bid by the Associated Press, blogging in campaigns is the focus. Fred Thompson, an actor turned politician, resorts to blogging after seeing fellow candidate Barack Obama’s success with campaigning over Myspace.
Thompson is well known for playing Arthur Branch on Law and Order. The internet is becoming a great way for presidential candidates to campaign. In 2004 Howard Dean predominantly used the internet to campaign, and has grown with candidates since. Many are using Myspace and other social networking sites to appeal to a younger crowd.
Thompson has been blogging on such sites as, Redstate.com, the Pajamas Media blog, the National Review Online, and The Fred Thompson Report. This extra work on his part has shown to help him. As of May 2007 he was running closely to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich but has since dropped out of the 2008 race.
Most of the younger generation is geared towards the internet and spend large amounts of time using computers. Blogging is a great way for the younger generations to learn about presidential campaigns. Blogging in general is a great way for kids to learn either by having one of their own or reading other’s. By having their own they learn how to be creative, to write better, and to use the internet for informational purposes. By reading other’s blogs they can learn about other people insights and views on issues which can help them develop their own opinions. It can also help their reading skills, communication, and tact.
I think this is a great way for students to learn. It makes things more interesting and fun. For the future, I think that websites should be designed only for students to blog. Translations would be available for them to see insight from their peers in different countries.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270067,00.html
2 comments:
I think that blogging is a great way for students to learn from one another. It can help them be creative, write and read better, while improving their technological skills. By interacting with one another through blogs, they can learn about different people’s views, values, and opinions. Blogs are great communicating tools to be used between teachers and students. Great article!
I think that blogging is a good way to help students to learn to write better, and read better. The more they read and write the better their spelling and reading is. Blogging can also be used in many other settings as you said, in politics. Great article.
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