Mr. Sheehy asked us in one of his blogs to write about our blogs . Starting out in this class, I was pretty happy when I found out that half the class all we do is blog. I personally became interested in blogs this year. I think this year was probably my tech peak. In our English class we blogged mostly about our views and relations on the story we were reading at the time. We also did a lot of personal views, and some of our blogs were just about maybe how we were feeling that day to start us up as a warm up.
My favorite subject to blog about was probably the personal relationships with the books that we had. I like to blog about my own feelings, instead of having to go into insight and looking for the plots or themes, I could just openly express how I felt about the story and where I thought it was going. I think that not only other peoples but also my blogs would have probably been more interesting if we would have used pictures more.. and made a visual of what we were thinking in our blogs to explain it.
Blogging to me is self resource that helps you open up your mind and expand your ideas to not only yourself but to others using the Internet. This year using the computers so much I learned that there is so many ways to use the blogs, not only to right but also for school assignments, and open minded discussions. When we used these blogs for literature, I think it helped the students out, because they didn’t have to write what they thought about the book in like essay form, they could do it informal and just write what was on their minds in order to explain how they interpreted the book. When I would write about something, I think it helped me with my writing skills, and also made it easier for me to put down my ideas. I didn’t feel like I was forced to write this big long essay or report, I could just share my own feelings in the best way I could.
Things that I have done well with the blogs, is probably just be as open-minded as possible with not only my ideas but others. I think that my open-mindness is probably the best quality of writing I have done, because I can take my feelings then read someones elses thoughts and then think back and see if maybe thats how im trying to say it.
Writing in blogs is completely different than other English classes, because when we are reading a story, we can just go onto our blogs and write about what we think is going on that day, and then in future references we can go back into our old blogs and recap what we thought back in the beginning of the book, instead of just getting a essay assignment at the end of the book, and having to remember everything from the beginning to the end.
Mr. Sheehy Said:
on May 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm
This is nicely expressed and I think a good defense for the use of informal writing, especially because if you were to look back at your previous writing (that writing where you just talked about your feelings and reactions to a book) you will be able to see evaluation present in it. In that sense, you not only found the plot and themes, you went beyond them. Your understanding of the plot and theme was embedded in your explanation of your feelings about the book in question.
It’s been a pleasure to read your thinking this year.
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on May 7, 2007 at 10:03 pm
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