This year in academy, we've blogged regularly for english class. I have really enjoyed writing them, because it helps me remember important ideas, especially in the Best of the Week blogs. I also like the best of the week blogs because they forced me to review the week and helped me retain many of the important themes or concepts we discussed in class. I also enjoyed the metacognition blogs (this one included) because they gave me a clearer view of the writing process and the components of a great story, poem, essay, etc. Some ideas we've blogged about go beyond the english classroom and now that the year is almost over, I'm glad that I can go back and look at my, or my classmates', blogs about them.
The only part of my blogging experience that I did not like was when I was forced to use a blogging prompt that I had nothing to say about. This happened with the Captured Thought prompt as well as the Dialectic prompt. I think it would be a good idea to offer more blogging assigments where we get to use a prompt of our choice. That way, we won't be forced to reach for an "I get it moment" when it isn't there. I think that the Dialectic prompt could work with a little more practice or instruction or both, because I was pretty clueless when writing that one.
However, all in all, I really enjoyed blogging this year in Academy. I really got a lot out of it and I even had fun when writing (and reading my classmates' blogs), especially on the iMedia and What If? prompts.
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Hey!
I agree with pretty much everything you said, especially the stuff about the random blog posts without a very solid prompt. I have absolutely no clue what I wrote my dialectic about, but if that is the blog that I think it is, I know I probably ended up stumbling over myself and babbling. It's really fun to do, you should try it sometime XD.
I'm going to head off pretty soon and work on the other projects we have, but yeah.. kudos!
~ Choi
Nick I agree with your comments about blogging this year. My personal favorites were the best of week or best of day and metacognition as well. However, there were a couple of blogging prompts that were harder to write about and think about. I think the change of mind prompt was the hardest because I didn't always feel like I recently had a change of mind about something. However, overall, I agree that blogging was a great and fun experience this year.
Nick,
I agree that blogging was very useful for recording ideas and learning about myself through writing. However, like you, there were several times when I simply had nothing to say about a particular prompt. Maybe good way Mr. Allen could have prevented this would be to have us use whichever prompt we wanted for each week, but make sure that we used each one at least once before using the same one twice. That way, we could pick a prompt that we actually had something to say about.
Brenner-
Like everyone else, I completely agree with what you have said. While the blogs do allow us to solidify and re-entrench what we’ve learned in class, they are sometimes useless and frustrating in that, at times, they seem to be assigned arbitrarily and with prompts that are too specific.
I remember cringing while reading the dialectics prompt and trying to think of something, anything to say that might be anywhere near what Mr. Allen wanted. Like Choi said, the appropriate solution is to just ramble on until you have something that has some decent idea somewhere, hopefully.
-Deuce
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