Blogging for Blogger

1. Has blogging been valuable to you as a student, thinker, reader, and writer?
As a writer blogging is an easier way to put all of my ideas into words and to show my words to everyone who may want to read them. Blogging is a great way to express myself and I like to do it.

2.What have you taken away from taking this approach to submitting writing for a class?
It shows a broader way to being able to answer questions, write essays, and express my concerns, ideas, or just random thoughts.

3.How do you feel about doing and continuing to do this kind of work?
I like doing this kind of work and definitely would not object if we had to continue doing our work this way.

4.Is this work different from other experiences that you have had in English classes?
This work is very different. I'm used to being assigned book reports and vocabulary. But in this class we have been forced to delve deeper into the reading and really comprehend what we are reading. This isn't the usual read and answer questions. It's read and analyze and show that you comprehend what you are reading and doing.

5.What suggestions do you have for me as a teacher who uses blogging in his English classes?
From my experience you should probably monitor a lot of the laughter because that usually means that they are definitely not doing the assignment.

6.Looking forward, do you have suggestions for how you want to be graded on this writing?
On this writing specifically I think that since it is mostly opinion and not hard cold facts we should be graded on how good our responses are and how honest we are while writing.

7.Has doing this work changed the community within your own class or between classes (11-1 and 11-2) in any way?
I suppose it has. It has given us farther insight about how our fellow classmates think, feel, and react to things as opposed to only knowing our perspective on things.

Blogging is fun because it helps us to interact with our classmates and get a better knowledge about technology and how things are going to work in college. It truly prepares us to go to college and grow us. well some of us anyways.