1. I think that blogging is a much better way to express a student’s ideas through writing. In traditional writing techniques the student had to write about a specific topic, like the wikis where each student had to write about whatever the assignment was for that day, and through this the student would find it hard to express his ideas, his likes and dislikes, and even his feelings sometimes. Through blogging each student had their own website to express themselves how ever way they wanted and the good thing about that is that they could post other stuff that they weren’t able to post on wiki spaces. When I say stuff, I mean like videos of their favorite comedian or links to websites that that student visits, and even pictures that they want to put on fro fun so that the other students and even the world can see clearly what type of person that student is. Also in blogging you can choose whatever you wanted to talk about and not have one specific topic that you have to keep writing about. Since each student chooses their own topic to their liking, I think that they are able to express themselves more and show their likes and dislikes more easily. That also shows their interests by what they choose to talk about, like me for an example, I like technology and especially technology on cars and I also like cars so I chose to write about “New Technology” because that’s what I’m interested in , and in my opinion by choosing a topic that I’m interested in I found that I am able to express myself more easily. Why I think you chose blogging instead of traditional writing techniques is because in wikis rarely anybody visits the site, but in blogs everybody likes blogs because most of them are interesting and creative; also because blogs are a way that students can connect to students and teachers around the world.
2. Other than the obvious, writing a lot, I accomplished many things during blogging in Language arts. Firstly I think that my language skills have improved greatly because of the grammar that was integrated into the blogging during class, and by improved I mean I started to look for big vocabulary words that I could use so that my writing is more clear to the readers and visitors of my blog, and also because it makes my sound very smart. I also started using a range of sentences. I started out using many simple sentences but then I started to write with all the types of sentences; simple, complex, compound, compound-complex. I think that I also got better at researching for information and choosing which websites are reliable and which are not reliable.
3. What I learned during the blogging part of L.A. is that research on the internet is not that easy and that not all the information that you write about is on the internet like when I wrote about imaging techniques, I found the information in a book I found at home about technology and it was a great source for me since it provided information about the subject I’m writing about and it means that I didn’t have to look it up on the internet when I could have just opened the book and found the information. Also I learned that giving your blog an interesting name and a creative look, like an advertisement, attracts more people to visit your website. Also that picking a subject is important because most people might like technology than sports and if you write about sports than less people would visit your site and comment about your writing.
4. Inside school this blogging activity will help me excel in writing, only that’s what I hope would happen. And also it would help me in classes that require a student to have voice and be able to express his ideas in a creative ways. Outside school I think that it would help me keep in touch with my friends in school and also to keep in touch with teachers and even to keep in touch with people that I have met online due to blogging; sadly I didn’t meet anybody. This is what I think blogs are useful for me in the future.
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