More Reasons to Blog That!
Since that last post, I've been pondering more reasons blogs are cool. Here's a list:
Blogs can have links to other related material. Have you figured out how to include links to other web sites in your blog yet? Try it!
Blogs can include pictures, sounds, movies, and anything else that can be digitized. Some of you have already discovered the magic of including pictures on your blogs, yet another way to make the writing experience richer for both you and your readers!
Blogs extend relationships beyond the school walls. Amazing what you learn about each other from the blogs that you'd never know from sitting in classes together all day! In a future blog I will talk more specifically about a particular student that I never would have known at all if not for her blog. (And it would have been my great loss to have never known her!)
Blogs help you make sense of your world.
Blogs help you figure out how you feel about things and allow you to develop or discover the reasons you feel as you do.
Blogs are permanent. You can go back and check them long afterwards to see if you still feel the same way. If you want, you can edit them accordingly.
Blogs are convenient. You can blog from anywhere there is Internet access, i.e., almost everywhere.
Blogs allow you to see how you have changed.
Blogs help you make writing your own. (The same self-involvement that makes MySpace so annoying works to improve writing because in order to control how others see us, we must master the writing process.) Blogs are ultimately selfish pursuits (like all Millennial technologies) because you are really doing it for yourself. I tell student writers all the time that the first step in mastering writing is make the assignment your own. Bring yourself to it. It's hard not to do that online. Boring people come across as boring. Enthusiastic people shine! Which reminds me...
...there are two types of student bloggers: 1) Those who treat it only as an assignment (ugh! dullsville!) and 2) those who embrace the experience and take some satisfaction in saying something important in a powerful way. (This puts the honor in Honors English, and these are usually the ones who stick it out until the end.)
You are some of the only people...on earth...who are using blogs in this way right now. Welcome to the Cutting Edge!
Blogs can have links to other related material. Have you figured out how to include links to other web sites in your blog yet? Try it!
Blogs can include pictures, sounds, movies, and anything else that can be digitized. Some of you have already discovered the magic of including pictures on your blogs, yet another way to make the writing experience richer for both you and your readers!
Blogs extend relationships beyond the school walls. Amazing what you learn about each other from the blogs that you'd never know from sitting in classes together all day! In a future blog I will talk more specifically about a particular student that I never would have known at all if not for her blog. (And it would have been my great loss to have never known her!)
Blogs help you make sense of your world.
Blogs help you figure out how you feel about things and allow you to develop or discover the reasons you feel as you do.
Blogs are permanent. You can go back and check them long afterwards to see if you still feel the same way. If you want, you can edit them accordingly.
Blogs are convenient. You can blog from anywhere there is Internet access, i.e., almost everywhere.
Blogs allow you to see how you have changed.
Blogs help you make writing your own. (The same self-involvement that makes MySpace so annoying works to improve writing because in order to control how others see us, we must master the writing process.) Blogs are ultimately selfish pursuits (like all Millennial technologies) because you are really doing it for yourself. I tell student writers all the time that the first step in mastering writing is make the assignment your own. Bring yourself to it. It's hard not to do that online. Boring people come across as boring. Enthusiastic people shine! Which reminds me...
...there are two types of student bloggers: 1) Those who treat it only as an assignment (ugh! dullsville!) and 2) those who embrace the experience and take some satisfaction in saying something important in a powerful way. (This puts the honor in Honors English, and these are usually the ones who stick it out until the end.)
You are some of the only people...on earth...who are using blogs in this way right now. Welcome to the Cutting Edge!
posted by MRT at 3:29 PM
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I actually went through and read all of those. They're very interesting. However, I think maybe...possibly that this one "Blogs help you make sense of your world." May apply most to me. Though I'm not sure. We'll just have to wait and see, won't we? Aha ha ha.
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