Blogging Experience

In the course of Journey through literature we made this blog to keep track of the work we did at the classroom. Counting this post I have 11 entries. The first blog we made was about ourselves, in which we talked about what we think we are. I said think but I feel that I’m always growing and changing and it is very difficult to express who you are. After that blog post we started to write about activities made in class, movies watched in class, and readings we had to make. Some were based in some instructions and some were freestyle. In my case I had never done a blog before, so preparing, adding gadgets, decorating, and all that was needed to make it organized, and pretty for the eye was a challenge, but I got the hang of it. 

Now that the blog activity is over I went thru all the posts and realized that the posts were getting shorter, but always in the 300 to 500 words, maybe because I learned to be more precise and concise or maybe because at the end of the semester every student has more work accumulated from all classes in our shoulders and I wasn’t an exception. I also realized that we did a lot during the semester studying the class theme, journeys in literature. One of my favorite’s posts was the one about tourist for a day, because it was definitely a unique experience to act like a tourist in Puerto Rico, the country in where I live. 

This blog activity was very different from the activities I do in other classes, mainly because I’m an Accounting student and literature and writing aren’t the focus of my curriculum. Because of this reason this activity was refreshing and unique. I also felt that with this method of writing and doing class work I helped the environment, because we didn’t need to print out every single post it was all on the web, going parallel with technology. I also liked that it was interactive meaning that I could receive feedback on my posts from the members of my group and that I could read their posts and see if other people have my same point of view, in what they differ, compare it with my interpretation, and that I was able to attach links, photos, and videos to make my point. 

In conclusion, the blog was new and different for me, but maybe because of that I was able to learn about blogs, I was open for feedback, and I was able to express myself better. It was a great activity that should be more common in the university.