Personal Reflection about my Blog

            This is not the first blog that I have done for my classes.  I have used UMW Blogs before for my poetry seminar class and WordPress for my education class.  We used each blog differently.  My poetry blog was a place we posted the poetry we created in the class.  My education blog was used as a place to write about what was going on in my life and in my practicum classroom.  I really do like having blogs because I think it is a neat place where you can post your writing.  I really wish I had used my blog more during this semester.  When I looked at other people’s pages that had added more to their page than just the assignments, it made me wish that I had done more to my page.  I wish I did freewritings and then post those because then it would show my progression with freewriting from the beginning of the semester to the end.  I think the blogs main importance was to show the progression of our writing and ideas about writing during this class.           

            Even though I think having a blog is very beneficial, it does make me nervous to think that my works will be read by others, even people that I don’t know.  That is the only concern that I have with the blog because I don’t know how other readers would react to what I wrote.  I think that was more of a concern when I was doing WordPress because that allows access to anyone, while UMW Blogs only allows people from UMW to access my blog.  When I wrote my posts for this class, I did not worry about what people thought when they read it, but maybe because I was just doing the assignments.

            As I said before, I really wish I had done more with the blog.  I felt like I only really used it for the assignments and since I didn’t feel like I connected with the blog.  It was a busy semester so I did not really have time to make my blog more personal.  If I had made it more personal then it would have had more value to me.  I would have liked to have used the blog more, like posting more responses to articles.  I think if we had to freewrite like once a week and post that on our blogs, it would have made it more personal for me.  I would do it if I was told to freewrite or do some type of writing activity each week.  That way we would do something that was personal to us and that would make the blog more personal.

            I also think we could have commented on each others blogs more and make comments about the freewrites or the responses that we had to do.  That way we can see each others writings and keep a close eye on everyone’s writing development over the course of this class.  I also think it would be beneficial if after we posted our papers on the blogs that the people who critiqued and revised my paper could look at the final draft and make a comment about the changes from the draft to the final paper.  I think that could be beneficial for us to see the changes and how we helped the draft and how the writer used our feedback to make adjustments to the final paper.

             I think this blog has the potential to allow us to reflect on ourselves as writers, but since I did not feel a personal connection with the blog, I considered it more of an assignment.  As I said earlier, I think I would have more of a connection if we did more assignments with the blogs.  This class has helped me with my identity as a writer and I wish I could have shown that more with the blog.  I think if I made it more personal and did freewrites and reflections on my blog, I would have been able to reflect on myself as a writer.  Even though I did not have that connection with these blogs, I can see a big potential in the blogs for that personal connection and reflection on ourselves as a writer.  I think blogs are really cool and beneficial and I think you should continue using the blogs.

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