Self Reflection
June 2nd, 20091. In your opinion, what was the purpose of this blogging activity? (Why did I choose to do blogging instead of more traditional writing activities?)
I think the purpose of this blog is that it makes your write what you want. It’s not like other activities, when you are forced to write something you usually don’t care about or don’t want to write it. The blog makes you want to write, it gives you the freedom to write your feelings. Like I used my blog to get all my madness in soccer. I really like that because when I write I don’t care about what I write and how much I write. I don’t check how many words I have until the end. In other assignments all I care about is how much I am writing and as soon as I reach the amount of words I usually stop. Unlike the blogs in which I write and keep on writing until I get all my feelings out. Also, you don’t need to write in a boring way. You write what you want, and soccer is part of my life and the teams I choose to talk about, I adore them. So, when I see something going wrong with them I would want to write about them and talk about them, and show the whole world wants wrong about them.
2. What have you accomplished during your blogging?
I usually do my assignments at last minute, but then in this blog, it only showed you the date not the time. So then I started to do my stuff early in the morning so I could finish before 12:00 and not get a 0 percent on my blog. I discovered that I am a free writer and that I like to write what is on my mind and that is the best way to write. I also started using new vocabulary words Furthermore my sentence structure got improved compared to my usual. I learned new ways of writing sentences and a better way. I always used to write my sentences in a normal way, because I never knew other ways, but now I learned a new way I can use for my writing. By using these Techniquemy writing looked more professional then it used to be. I never really wrote a lot, I use to think that writing 200 words is a lot, but now when I write without even knowing I write 400 words and it became so easy for me to write at least 400 words.
3. What key concepts have you learned while blogging? (This can be about writing, research or technology etc.)
I learned how to use a blog. I never thought that blogging would be my thing, or that I would ever blog. When our teacher Mrs. Rumford first told us that we need to make up a topic of our own. I thought it was going to be so hard, because I would have to think about what am I going to write, and I thought it would be so boring, and just another writing assignment. Then Mrs. Rumford showed us other blogs, and I saw how people wrote and the subjects they wrote about. I saw that they were writing about their feelings. So, I thought to myself that I love soccer, and all my soccer clubs are bad this year, so then I wanted to write about soccer, and after my second blog I started to like blogs a lot, and this is why now I like free writing. And I would prefer to write free writing more than any other writing structures. I didn’t really learn anything new from research because I didn’t really research, I just wrote what’s on my mind then I edit it. I already have information about my team.
4. Based on the skills you learned while blogging, how will this benefit you in the future? This maybe inside or outside of school.
I think this will help me in the future because when I grow up, maybe the company I work for treat the employers unfairly, I have the freedom and courage to write about how they treat us and I could send it to the government to see it. Also, it helped my skills of writing and free writing and this will help me with other classes like social studies my teacher always tells me that I am not suppose to only list facts. Now I can write without listing. In the blog I got to read how people feel, I read things that I never new about that person and it made me feel really sorry for him. I never new that these stuff really happened to him. When I read his feelings and what he have been through I felt really sorry for him, so I started being nicer to him and defending him. I heard that next year we will need to write a lot in our essays at least three hundred words! For everyone its going to be hard but for me its going to be easier because this year I wrote four hundred words in almost all my essays, so next year I will be prepared for high school and it will be easier for me to write three hundred words.









