Blogging Around: The Blogging Process

I really agreed with Margot's post about the blogging process throughout sophomore year. Margot talked about wishing we had the freedom to choose our blogging topics and how blogging gave us the opportunity to continue discussing topics that we had talked about in class. The following is my comment on Margot's blog:

Margot,
Great post! I agree with you about wishing we could blog about anything we wanted regarding English. I also found it cumbersome to blog when I couldn't think of anything to write about that would fit the prompt we were given. I think it would be beneficial to our thinking process if we were able to have more freedom in terms of what we wanted to blog about. I also enjoyed blogging because I was able to rant about a topic that I might not have gotten to talk about in class. Overall, I think blogging was beneficial and helped us to express our feelings about certain English topics.



The next blog I read was Kyle's blog. In general, I agreed with most of what Kyle said. Kyle's blog post said that we should have more freedom in what we blog about and that this experience was lacking online community interaction and he thinks that should be added to this experience next year. His blog also said that by not having freedom to choose our topics, these aren't really blogs, but rather online journal responses. Kyle has created his own personal blog this year, as well.

Kyle,
Great post! I agree with a lot of what you said. I also said in my blog post that I felt that some of the given blog prompts were too forced. I thought it was interesting that you said that with this type of assignment, we could basically email Mr. Allen our "journal response" each week and get the same effect as the blog. In some ways, I agree with you because basically we are being told to write a response to a question and the only unique thing is that it's online. However, in another way, this does make our response more accesible to other people. If we just turned in our responses to Mr. Allen, no one would really be able to read them without going and getting our responses from Mr. Allen. I'm glad that this experience has helped to inspire you to start your own blog. I've read your personal blog and really enjoy it! Finally, I agree with you that adding more online community interaction would be beneficial to this experience. We only really looked at other students' blogs when we did the "Blogging Around" prompt and online community interaction is a big part of the blogging experience. Great post!
-Emily