Blogging

I feel like blogging is one of the biggest parts of our class; we have two due a week and they really cause us to connect what we are learning in the classroom to what we are thinking in our minds.

One of the instructions for blogging is to engage the text in our blog. This relates to our class time because we are constantly referring back to the text during class and therefore are required to do the same for our blog. I quickly learned that this wasn't a class I could take lightly; if I don't read the text I can't really interact in class or know what to write about for the blog. Not ot mention, if I don't read the text (which happened once before) I am guilted by the mini quizzes we end up taking in class!

One of the ideas discussed about reading in class was to re-read the text in order to come to a better understanding of its theme and meaning. As much as I don't like to re-read texts, especially when they are long, I have come to find that it is extremely effective. Usually at first glance I read over a poem and don't understand it; instead of wanting to figure it out, I would rather simply put it away and forget about it. But if you can get me to read it a second time and I begin to comprehend the message, I quickly become interested and want to decipher its meaning! I think blogging helps to put that on paper and gets me to write my thoughts down, making them more concrete. I would liek to re-ignite my excitement for blogging by engaging my thoughts more into the texts. When I first started blogging, I really liked being able to write down my thoughts and feel like I was being heard. Lately I have been taking it less seriously, and as a result haven't enjoyed them as much. But I want to change that; I want to be more negaged in the text to have a deeper blog posts that will ultimately being an enjoyable experience to myself and hopefully others.