Blogging: where contractions, slang, and casual writing roam free.
Before I created my American Literature blog, the only experience I had with blogging was from Tumblr. Now, as great as Tumblr is, there really is not anything beneficial about spending hours on end reblogging pictures of odd memes and aesthetically pleasing pictures and writing. However, I found this class blog to be advantageous; it is all the fun of writing without the harsh grammar/ punctuation/ formatting rules. Our new PLD’s also make class-blogging more accessible.
I do not consider myself to be technologically inclined, but even that aspect of blogging is not too difficult. Another part of class blogging that I enjoy is the feedback I received from classmates. It is rewarding to check ones blog and see a comment from a classmate with (usually) positive feedback and thought-provoking questions. I also enjoyed that the blogs were focused around metacognition. When we first created the blogs, most of my classmates wrote about their preferred learning method. It was slightly banal, but eventually everyone began to explore different areas of metacognition and I started to genuinely enjoy reading my classmates posts.
Overall, I thoroughly appreciated blogging this year. In all honesty, my only suggestion would be to assign more blog posts throughout the year.
Before I created my American Literature blog, the only experience I had with blogging was from Tumblr. Now, as great as Tumblr is, there really is not anything beneficial about spending hours on end reblogging pictures of odd memes and aesthetically pleasing pictures and writing. However, I found this class blog to be advantageous; it is all the fun of writing without the harsh grammar/ punctuation/ formatting rules. Our new PLD’s also make class-blogging more accessible.
I do not consider myself to be technologically inclined, but even that aspect of blogging is not too difficult. Another part of class blogging that I enjoy is the feedback I received from classmates. It is rewarding to check ones blog and see a comment from a classmate with (usually) positive feedback and thought-provoking questions. I also enjoyed that the blogs were focused around metacognition. When we first created the blogs, most of my classmates wrote about their preferred learning method. It was slightly banal, but eventually everyone began to explore different areas of metacognition and I started to genuinely enjoy reading my classmates posts.
Overall, I thoroughly appreciated blogging this year. In all honesty, my only suggestion would be to assign more blog posts throughout the year.