Blog #11: The Last of Them

Blogging was a whole new world for me, before this assignment I had never ventured out to share my ideas with complete strangers. It truly opens up a new world in terms of connection and education. The idea of blogging is still strange to me, do people actually check on certain blogs daily in hopes of seeing something new? But this assignment also showed me how many social media sites are actually micro-blogs. Facebook and Twitter consists of mostly people sharing blurbs about their days or sharing things they enjoy and blogs aren't much different. Blogging just condenses the information while popular social media site cut it up into bite size portions.

I took this assignment very seriously, it was important to to have blogs that reflected key issues I believe are important. This blogging experience was very useful when it came to finding my own voice while writing. In most conventional English classes teachers limit the creativity of their students which severely limits the effort put forth into assignments. This assignment however did the opposite of that for me. Many classes I've taken before don't allow for you to decide what topics are important enough for you to write and put effort into. I highly enjoyed writing even short bits about issues I find not enough people talk about.

A very important thing I learned from this assignment is that everyone can write. All the blog posts I've read from my peers have been well written and interesting. This is in contrast to my previous dislike of reading my peers' work because it was like reading the same paper over and over again. This blog assignment let people share bits of themselves though. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson to learn that anyone can write if you allow them the freedom to choose the topic. I think if there's one thing I can comment on is the assignment is that entries #7 & #9 are pretty similar. It was difficult to write about pink slime with the limited resources given without doing additional research. If anything I would say that #9 was my least favorite entry to do because it was the one that felt the most limited. Many of my classmates wrote similar or the same things for that entry which I didn't notice for any of the other entries. Besides this one issue I loved this assignment for the class. It allowed us students much more freedom than another writing project and, in my opinion, helped develop our writing styles more than any other assignment this term.