4th Quarter Self-Reflection
Written on May 29, 2010 – 9:22 pm | by llama320
Okay people today is not a usual book review post but we have to post a reflection on why we are usuing blogs instead of the usual method of writing adn other questions. Sorry if you were expecting a book review but here we go.
I have found that many people in my class and around the world love to blog abotu many topics, books, movies, books turned into movies, and many, many more. I think that there are many reasons to why Ms. Rumford chose to do blogging instead of a more tradtional writing activity. I would think that the purpose of blogging instead of more traditional writing activities would be because we would have a much broader audience. Seeing that it was posted on the internet and many people all over the world have access to the internet we would be able to be criticized by others than our peers. We would also have to be respectful to other religions and opinions of many other people we probably wouldn’t know at all. Another reason would be that we are able to get access to others work much easier and criticize their work easier as well. We are also able to compare our work to theirs and see what they are excelling in and what we could improve and vice versa. Although it might not be the purpose I liked the fact of knowing where people who were visiting my blog are from. I would be able monitor how worldwide my blog is and the fact that I have a visit from every continent except for Antarctica.
I think I have accomplished a fair amount of things and am very excited on continuing this later in life! Well some things that I have accomplished would be the fact that I have gotten better at expressing my own opinion. We all have opinions and we all need to express some way, somehow and I think that the blog was my way. Some times when I was angry and had a blog due I would channel it through to the post though trying not to make it too obvious who it was about. I was looking at some of my classmates posts today and I saw that some of them also did the same as well. Well I have to admit that it feels good not to be the only one who a strong emotion into their work. Something else that I thought I accomplished is that I can now say that I know how to work a blog. It’s true because before this all I knew how to work was my Facebook, hotmail, and the online games, which I am not too proud of.
Some key concepts which I learned while blogging is taking in the fact that people all over the world are looking at this. That fact needs to be done and kept in mind to make a blog successful and enjoyable. If you look at my beginning blog I don’t include a lot of opinion. But as I progress I make my stand as a blogger and make sure that I can include my own opinion while not putting any offence to others around the world. I think that now I have a better ability to do research not only on the internet but also, because I am doing books, in the book itself. What I will do, is that while reading the book I will place Sticky Notes on the parts I find funny or worth mentioning. I will then go back and go through and choose which few I will be in my post for you all to read. I also find it very useful allowing my friends to read and see how they think the book is …I could use that on my next blog!
I think the fact that Ms. Rumford had has do required work in our blogs such as word count, word choice, linking, and embedding tasks were simple. They were easy to do and to learn because for word count at the beginning of the year it was 200-400 words so it was not too hard. As we progressed through the year and I learned many more helpful things we wrote more and more up to 500-600 words. Though some of my posts on the blog were longer but I don’t think anyone noticed that. I find it easier now to write 700-800 word entries though I do have to shorten them down a tad to make sure it’s near the limitation. Word choice for me was a bit difficult since I like to type, type, type and not look up to get it done and fast. Though when we started this I found that because I did that I could take advantage of that and just type till the end then find words that I could improve.
I think that the skills that I have learned will help me in the future in situations where I have to proof read a students work in L.A next year. We did a lot of that in the seventh grade and I thought it was very difficult to understand why we had to do that but during eighth grade I got why we did. To hone in on our own ability to identify different sentences and what words we could use instead of simple ones. I think that this will possibly help me in the future when I want to an ad maker. If you think about it an ad has to have 2 things about it to attract someone’s eye. Number one is that it has to be bright and colorful just not too much so it will hurt their eyes and two is it must make sense because I was on facebook a few days ago and saw a group that said “Let’s eat Grandma, Let’s eat, Grandma. Punctuation saves lives’ and you know what? They are right because wrong punctuation can send out the wrong meaning to everyone you want to tell something about.
G-G-G-G- THAT’S ALL FOLKS! Have a great day and drive safe!
I got you didn’t I!!!!! YAY! 
