1. In your opinion, what was the purpose of this blogging activity? (Why did I choose to do blogging instead of more traditional writing activities?)
In my opinion, I thought the blogging activity was very useful this year. Traditional writing activities are almost always old and boring, and what would happen is we’d have to write about some boring topic that we didn’t care much about and we didn’t really enhance our writing skills at all. However, with Ms. Rumford giving us the blogging activity, we got to pick our own topic that we really enjoyed and were fascinated by. Therefore, when writing about something we’re passionate about, the voice truly comes out, and you can just see the writing skills strengthening with every week. Also, most people our age are better writers and more comfortable writing on computers (including myself) and they develop skills quicker than if they were to write with paper and pencil. Therefore, I think all of Ms. Rumford’s students became much stronger writers in just the month we’ve been using the blogs.
2. What have you accomplished during your blogging?
During our blogging activities, I am proud to say that I have become a much stronger writer. Before, all I would write in my blogs is the bare minimum. Just last week, however, I just kept writing and writing and got so passionate about it, that by the time I pasted it onto Word document to count up the words, I am proud to say that I wrote over 1070 words, compared to the 400 word minimum! I think I have become a better writer in that way that I can just kind of escape into my writing.
3. What key concepts have you learned while blogging? (This can be about writing, research or technology etc.)
Some key concepts that I have learned through blogging are vocabulary and sentence fluency. I learned that just changing a simple word like good or bad into something like exceptional or mediocre can not only make your writing better and more interesting, but it helps the flow of the sentences, making it much easier to read.
4. Based on the skills you learned while blogging, how will this benefit you in the future? This maybe inside or outside of school.
Based on some skills I used in doing the blogs, I know I will be benefited later on in life. I now know that I can keep in touch with sports and other events going on in the World, even if they’re being taken place at very late times and in different countries, just by using the internet. Using the internet, I was able to watch highlights of games, and read Play-By-Plays of games. Also, like I said before, all of us benefited by becoming better writers, so that will obviously help us later on in life in school. Also, using blogs at an early age like this gets us to be more comfortable with using this system so that in college or work when you are required to make a journal or blog, you will be much better at doing it, and will know how to do it better.
This has been an amazing year in Language Arts, and I’ve definitely learned a lot that I think will stay with me throughout my life.
