My generation’s diary. When Mr. Allen originally told us his plans for us to have our own blog, I thought it was slightly ridiculous (no offense). I don’t like to ‘write down my feelings’ or sit reflecting on one miniscule detail to death. I’m not sure if this is because I can second guess those ‘deep thoughts’ I have, and wouldn’t want to publicize them or perhaps because my mind can work on such a tangent, I’d be thinking of a different thought before I finished typing the first sentence. Although these worries dissipated some, it is still the first thing I would address if I were to present the blogs to a future academy class. This does not have to be some gushy spiel, the structure was as strict as you made it. The nice thing about the blogs was there was a format and guidelines to spark point of views and ideas, but it wasn’t a strict writing requirement. I had the freedom to take whichever direction the subject led me to taking. I think it is important to continue this formatting, allowing the blogging prompts, but the rest of each personal blog up to the writer. I think the overall ideas of the blog were good, and should be continued. It lets some of the quieter students show their understanding and insight to the teacher, and upon writing I have found myself reaching a higher apprehension of what happened. I’m not particularly found of my thinking or my blog, but have reached some interesting tid bits here and there which still makes me think this is a good idea. The issue I still struggle with is being able to have others read my blog, which is one of the better aspects as well. It’s a battle trusting myself to speak my opinion knowing anyone can read it, but it’s a privilege being able to read my truly gifted classmate’s blogs. What I keep circling back to, is making sure theirs a high level of comfort with being able to share your opinions.
*As a side note. The save now option for blogging has failed me multiple times. I would just briefly mention the idea of typing it out on a word document, then copy and pasting it to the blog.
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Alyssa, I really enjoyed your post. I too often found myself in a mess of thoughts struggling to focus on something specific enough for a blog. I wrote one blog about the dialectic between the individual and the community and it ended up being super long because I could not concisely formulate my ideas. It happens to other people too!
I also really love reading other people's blogs and I wish we did more of it. It's really interesting reading about other people's ideas and I'm glad these blogs are public.
Reading other peoples blogs is one of my favorite things about this assignment too, though I really only get around to it when we have a blogging around prompt like this one (Mr. Allen should definitely keep these prompts for next year). In my metacognition post about this blog, I mentioned how I really didn't like a lot of the prompts we had, and that I'd rather just talk about what I wanted. But your post reminded me that some people really want a general structure to their posts, and I might be in the minority in that I'd rather not have them.
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