Blogging

Being able to to blog and do assignments online has been a fun experience. We get to have two periods in class with the laptops and spend time doing the assignments. By blogging, we are able to see other people's work and comment on them. As a student, blogging is valuable because I get to have my work commented on and get other people's opinion about my work. I also like to read other people's blog and see what they have to say about certain topics. Commenting other blogs are fun and they get to see my point of view on what I think about their assignments.

I think continuing this type of blogging in school is fun for us to do. We are able to interact with each other based on school work. The only thing that I don't really like about blogging is the website itself. I think the site should have a tracker of what you have done on its site. This would really help on the comments because I usually forget if I comment on some one's blog or not. Just to be safe, I just comment on someone else's. Being able to blog, we can interact with the technology we have available at school too.

This type of work is definitely different than what I have done in other English classes. Every work or assignment was always hand-written or presented. I like this idea of having a laptop every Friday because it's a lot easier to type work out than to write it. I can fix mistakes easily and get other people's opinion through their words visually instead of verbally.

With blogging, this has enabled both 11th grade classes to read and comment on each other's work. We have never done this before for any of the classes we have had in high school. We can know how other students think and how they express themselves through words. I usually don't talk to the other students in 11-2, but now I can comment on their work. Within our own class, people who usually don't talk to each other are able to comment on each other's work.

Blogging has many pros that can benefit us. It expanded the amount of communication available for both classes. People can read and comment on each other's work easily. Plus, the idea of using laptops in school to do English work is fun and new compared to other previous years in school.