The World of Ender

Monday, May 08, 2006

Reflecting on Our Blog

Now that we are bringing this unit to a close, tell me if you've enjoyed participating in our blog. Have you read other posts from your fellow classmates? Have you been influenced by others' views? Would you like to see blogs used in other classes?

Be honest and let me know what you think.

posted by Brady Kelso @ 11:02 AM  

8 Comments:

  • At 8:12 PM, Blogger STC said…

    Only Mr. Kelso is a cool enough teacher to come up with the creative/awesome idea of hosting an English class blog in the first place.

    I've had profs in college who have used similar online techniques to get people to discuss literature. So you all should get used to it.

    Go Mr. Kelso. You still rock.

    --a former student

     

  • At 9:26 PM, Blogger Armin Samii said…

    I agree with Cody on the note that the blog is both good and bad, and that you never know how much writing is enough. Also, it is hard to read each persons post because if you do, you want to respond to each post. I was reading a few of the comments here and I was amazed by how much commenting I wanted to do. But I'm restraining myself (but I have to say w00ts for ants taking over the world).

    However, I did like this blog because you got to see other peoples ideas. It was really helpful to get a new perspective on things. However, if you are not one of the first people to post, everything was probably already mentioned. And if there are 60-something comments, you really don't want to read through each one.

    I agree a lot on what Devin said about intimidation. You see huge posts by people who make 143 posts a day, and you feel like you just need to keep writing. For example, I was about to press submit at the last paragraph, but then I realized it was not long enough compared to some of the other posts, so I decided to keep writing about why I am writing this paragraph (was that sentence too long?).

    I think it would have been really cool to have a pro-kelso-ranting entry, where everybody writes stories on the amazing Kelso and how he is the best teacher on campus. There would be so much to write about it...
    (No, that was not to get extra credit)

     

  • At 9:41 PM, Blogger cacerola said…

    I'm going to be frank about this. (Well, actually I'm going to be 'Elena', but that's not the point...)
    Although this blog allowed for the flow of information and ideas to be shared more readily, I had a bit of trouble adjusting to posting in blogs. Yes, I'll admit it. I have no life. I don't spend massive amounts of time online and thus use long posts to get my ideas across (even if not all of them can be easily transmitted without words.) Personally, I like the idea of speaking to people face to face or pen to paper instead of screen to screen. So, naturally, I had trouble adjusting to this type of thing. I don't speak in the oh-so-popular 1337 and so my writing comes off as a bit stuffy. I'd just prefer to write an essay and be done with it. However, the amount of topics through which you can peruse makes up for not having to write an essay on any one topic.

     

  • At 12:27 AM, Blogger dude said…

    I'll be short and concise. I have mixed feelings about this blog.

    Pros: Much more fun than doing actual homework, easy to write since your thoughts are still fresh in your mind, and a various amount of topics to talk about.

    Cons: I feel insecure because I don't know how much to write, some people are writing a LOT more than me and I don't want to look bad, no clear rubric or from of grading, and really easy to get side-tracked and addicted.

     

  • At 8:03 PM, Blogger Armin Samii said…

    Who is the seminerd hater up there?!

    Anyway, I just realized that I'm not the only one who loves putting Vocabulary Cartoon words in. I think this blog was great practice for using the words because we have the freedom to write about basically anything.


    Oh, and this is really random, but this website is amusing.

     

  • At 8:33 PM, Blogger dude said…

    I have to say, that it was very easy to get into blogger wars.

     

  • At 8:59 PM, Blogger cacerola said…

    Yes. We shouldn't term them as 'wars' because then we would be looked down upon for the indignity of fighting online. However, 'fiery debate' is perfectly acceptable.

     

  • At 9:13 PM, Blogger Armin Samii said…

    This is just some critisicm of the blog that Mr. Kelso can do nothing about, but it really bothered me (I don't know why): Names are not capitilized. Even if you put in a capitlized name, it comes out uncapitilized. I know this is really minor but it kind of got on my nerves.

     

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