In my own opinion I think you chose to do a blogging activity rather than a written activity because blogs give us students a different perspective on our own writing and it has personally taught me different things about my writing. The blogs personally have taught me three things that I wouldn’t have been able to do with a normal writing activity. The first thing is that how I connect with the world through a simple blog and how I can express my ideas with other people than just a group of kids. It has also improved my writing because having certain things that I had to write like sentence structure helped me improve my writing and it wouldn’t have been able to do with a simple writing assignment. The final thing that personally helped me with the blogs that was better than a writing assignment was that I liked how we could chose what we wanted to name our blog and this lead to me being able to stay focused on what I liked and by letting me chose what I wanted to write about it made me actually liking to keep writing.
There have been many things that I have accomplished through the whole blogging activity but there have been 3 major things that I have really improved on. The first is how I’ve been able to see how others think of my writing. This isn’t just my fellow peers but the world and different opinions that have spread through my blog. The next thing is how I’ve been able to stay up to date with the latest sports and topics. Even though this isn’t a big thing that you would think would be important personally writing and sometimes criticizing sports and topics was fun for me a major learning experience. The final thing that was so great about this blog was that it taught me more of how to choose a good topic and how to stay focused on one thing. This was accomplished by making our blog title and this narrowed the search for a certain subject and this helped enhance our abilities because this was something we liked.
Blogging has taught me certain things or key concepts about blogging and present day life. One of the key concepts I learned was obviously blogging. This was the second time I had done a blog and my writing keeps getting better. I think this is because I get more positive criticism from others and this just encourages me to write more and more to see how my writing has improved. Another key concept that I have gained or learned is technology obviously all of us have been using computers to write our blog and this just makes the use of the technology that surrounds us even easier to use now. Using this technology weekly has personally made other things easier rather than not using these devices. It has also taught me how to use a different blog and by using this blogging site I’ve become a better blogger and it has spread my knowledge of the blogging world. The last important concept that it has taught me is research. This concept has improved because weekly I had to research my topics and this also improved my writing another key concept. The act of researching helped all of my blogging and it will eventually help me in my other classes.
Blogging has obviously been spreading through our class and the school. Blogging will stick with some of us and some will forget about it and will move on to regular writing assignments. Personally writing and reading have never been fun to me or I’ve always ignored it. But, after the blogging activity I’ve noticed that reading others and commenting on their work not only improves their writing but it also shows me that I can not only learn from a teacher but that a kids mistakes and their positives can help me change how I write and look at other peoples writing. It will help me in school with my reading and writing but outside of school now the blogging has made me a smarter person by helping me with my vocabulary and by helping me with how I criticized others in a better way to improve them. Blogging will help many of us in all of eighth grade and it will be an experience none of us will forget.
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