"My Opinions on Blogging" Blog

Blogging has been extremely beneficial to me as a student, thinker, reader, and a writer. As a student, the standard shell of how homework is done was completely broken by the opportunity to blog. Assignments don’t seem as strict and the pressure has decreased because of that. As a thinker, blogging has been extremely beneficial; especially last weekend’s blog. When we are given the chance to free write I think that is when most of my brain cells are spinning and my inner most thoughts are portrayed. Blogging has also improved my reading and writing skills. Our blogs are always on topics that include some sort of preliminary reading, so in order to successfully blog, I always make sure that I have read and understood the text clearly. As a writer, I think that blogging has made those writing skills stronger because each week I am challenged to write a new paper, on a completely different topic. By doing this I am learning how to write about different things in different ways.

This approach to submitting writing for class has given me confidence and responsibility. I gain the confidence when my peers comment about how they agree and like my ideas and when they give kind remarks. Also, I feel confident when [YOU] Mr. Fiorini gives me positive feedback on my writings. I also take responsibility from this new experience because not only do I have to make sure to sign on BlogSpot, write a powerful paper, and then finally submit my blog, I also have to read and comment on a classmate’s blog.

I feel that this work has only been helpful and that we should continue to do this kind of work. Hopefully in the future we can have some more free writing opportunities. Maybe we could also have blog assignments that we as students have come up with. This way we all get a chance to blog about a topic, issue, or thought that we personally want to discuss. I think that we should be graded the same way we would get graded on regular essays that we would be submitted on paper. Since we get them every weekend and not during the course of the week, in fairness, they should be graded higher than an average homework assignment would. I don’t think that this work has changed the community within 11-1 and 11-2. To change this I think that every once in awhile we should be assigned to a person that we normally wouldn’t comment on or read their blogs. This way we can get insight into a person’s writings that we normally wouldn’t’ experience on our own.