Blog 13

Blogging WOW!!! Let me see, it has definitely helped me, but at this point right now, I am all blogged out, and can’t wait until I do the last one. I am not saying this in bad light of blogging; it is just that since I have been introduced to blogging in this class, it has become—my hunting for this semester. Every week by 11:59pm, Friday, I am on a mission to try and complete the minimum 500 word requirement; boy what pressure!!! It was like my whole world stopped because I had to get my blog completed, posted, and send a copy to me instructor before I turned into a pumpkin. What an uplifting feeling I got when I was able to accomplish it, and not only was I able to complete the minimum 500 word requirement, but sometimes I got carried away and wrote as much as 600 words. It was always difficult for me to try to decide which one of the three blog prompts to write about since they all were interesting and required taking a different approach on the topic that was discussed in class; The prompts seemed to be in three levels of understanding; the first prompt I felt required a very deep understanding of the what was discussed in class, the second prompt did not required as much analytical thinking, and the third prompt always seemed to easier than the other two. I always felt as if I did not understand the material and felt intimidated on getting started, but once I started writing, I got carried away and had to refer back to the prompt because I would start writing about things that were not pertaining to the prompt, and end up deleting ¼ of my paper and starting over. Blogging presented to be a burden and a challenge all in one to me, because I had to look at literature from another perspective and how it relates to gender, it also made me more aware of the different rhetoric surrounding it. I survived, and because of blogging, it has kept my mind on all the books, videos, and topics that were discussed throughout the semester in this class. Blogging turned out to be my open journal on my own points of view on the class and the contents that were being discussed.

Blog response did not prove to be as challenging; I rather did enjoy doing it. I also found to be a lot easier than writing my own initial blog. I looked forward to blogging the 200 words minimum—separate response for two classmates; it was a piece of cake because I was eager to view their perspectives on the prompt they chose to write about. Blogging has also helped me connect with my classmates by means of responding to their blogs, which provided an access into keeping an open dialect outside of class about the topic of discussion. Responding was like listening to a person’s own point of views and how they felt about the topic and respecting it for what it’s worth and allowing me to share my own views on the same topic for others to respond to.