Blog Post 11: Extra Credit: TEAM WHY

This being the final blog post of the semester it will be reflection based. When the semester first started I thought that this blog was going to be to be super easy and just another weekly assignment. However, after the first few weeks I realized the exact opposite. It wasn't super easy and took some time and consideration to get the blog’s done well and thoroughly. You really needed to know what you were talking about and have good examples in order to have a successful blog post for the week. I liked how the blogging was set-up; I enjoyed the fact that it was once a week so it wasn't too overwhelming, but I also liked the response aspect. The reason the response aspect was key is because you got to see the different ideas, thoughts, insights and opinions our peers had for that’s week’s theme or topic. It started to make us think outside of the box and in different ways. My blog manifesto did alter throughout the semester, at first we just wanted to be blunt critics and be different than everybody else, but as the semester proceeded on we changed our approach. We wanted to make actual good blog posts, even if it meant being somewhat like other posts; we learned that not being different is sometimes okay, especially when our newer posts were written better and more thoroughly. We did stick to critically reviewing the material, its themes, characters, but just started to branch out of just the cliché topics of writing. The blog posts that were the most fun to write about and to respond to were the detective section/theme of our class. These were the most interesting because a lot of the class had good relations to theme, which made for really good class discussions and posts. As a whole I learned from this blogging group that it’s okay to change from where you started even if where you started was really good, being able to develop your ideas to a new level only will result in more knowledge and better understandings of the text. I would highly recommend inserting this type of blogging into other English classes.