Over the past seven weeks I was forced to emerge myself into a new type of technology-blogging. At first I was a little reluctant. I was apprehensive to the fact that my work would be read by the any one in the class. For one I knew that some people would cheat off my work, and sometimes I had ideas that I didn't want to share with the class.
Furthermore, when we had to comment on people's work it was no way to keep track on who you commented to and sometimes that would unfairly be reflected in my grades. I grew annoyed trying to remember who I commented on. If there was any way to keep track of who you commented to, that would be of great help. I also think that the posts should be graded on grammar, on sentence organization (basically the syntax of our work). I want the blogs to be graded harder so that we can grow as writers.
Nevertheless, I've come to find that the pros outweigh the cons in this situation. Because I know had the responsibility of blogging, that challenged the quality of work. I felt that because I'm not the only person who is reading the post, I can't publish bad quality work because that would be a reflection on me.
I found that just as blogger can be a means for some people to cheat, blogger can be a great way to discover different perspectives of classmates. When I read some of the posts I found that a lot of people in my class are great writers. From my classmates posts I saw what worked for them and how I could apply what they did to better my work. Additionally, I learned how to correctly comment on posts; I used to just say 'good job' and leave it at that. Now I learned how to look into people's work and see how they can improve their work. That helped me as a writer because many of the corrections I saw were things that I did.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said. Although in my paper I didn't put any negative comments, I still agree with everything you said. You have great opinions and you're always able to express yourself wonderfully. I enjoy reading your posts.
ReplyDeleteI just love the first line of your last paragraph. I definitely agree that it gets annoying with not being able to track who we commented on. We have the same opinion on most things =]
ReplyDeleteAlexis ..this post really shows that you have confidence in your ideas and once you have an opinion you do not hesitate to give it. There should be no reason that you should hold back on what you are thinking because your ideas are ones that probably many of us have but are just holding back from saying. I agree about the difficulty of keeping track of coments . Great job!
ReplyDeleteAlexis, your post is very very interesting. I liked how you compared and contrasted the flaws and inspiring things about using Blogger. Your choice of words and diction is very descriptive, and you really express your emotions through the post. Great Job, Alexis!
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