blog reflection

In this course we have been making comments on this blog regularly every week ever since this class started. Posting our opinions on things such as what problems we had in this course and what we thought the meaning of words like genre were. How about we write about the blog thought or how it and the locations that we are at affect how we write and what we write about?
The technology we use is amazing. We all have a website called blogger that we have access to and anytime we want we can post something on there. Its cool because anyone else who can log into that site can see what we have to say. For this blogger site thought we don’t just post anything we want. I mean some people do but usually our teacher has a certain task we have to write and blog. That task could be for us to say what we think a definition of a word is, like the genre. Then we all would post what we thought the definition of the word was. When we would go to where all the posts are at we can see many of the other responses our classmates had or even ones of others, if they were assigned the same question.
When seeing others responses to what the teacher asked us to post about he helps us. It helps us because it shows us if what we said is similar to what others said. They don’t have to be similar as in being word for word but be similar in ideas. We see if our main ideas are alike. If they are alike it makes someone like myself feel good because I feel confident because I say things like, “Oh I’m not the only person who thinks like that” or “I can’t be too wrong because here goes someone else who said something similar to what I said.” If I was to see that too many of our responses are pretty close to being alike I would think something is wrong. I would think that maybe we all are just answering the question and not putting our opinion down because if we all were to put our opinion down at least some would be different because we all don’t think alike. Also the blog affects how we write an essay about something like. Like definition of genre, if my definition of genre was to look different from everyone else’s then I would probably have my essay work around the definition of what others thought genre was and what seemed right to myself.
The Location we were at while posting on the blog most of the time was in class. The teacher would write down what he wanted us to post on the blog and we would do that, right after he got done explaining to us. Our classroom had a lot of mac books (a kind of laptop) so we all would be able to get connected to the internet and post on the blog right from there. While posting in the classroom it kind of changes the way I feel because its something I have to do right away. Its not something I could just put off to the side and say I’m going to do another time. When doing it right away it helps gather first thoughts and how I initially feel about what our teacher is asking us to do. For example when he asked us to post what we thought the definition of genre was. If I was to see people looking confused I that would give me a reaction of thinking that maybe this won’t as easy as it sounds or that maybe I’m not thinking about it hard enough. Doing the blog during class helps with getting reactions right away and knowing how other classmates feel in person.
Before doing blogs in class I really thought writing was just doing what the assignment asked you to do. I used to just read what the assignment was and do exactly what it was asked with little effort. After seeing posts and doing more assignments I came to realize that I should incorporate what I think about things. That’s what most of our blogs asked us to do, was mainly to state what we thought something was. With combination of using the technology and using our classroom I feel that I have become a better writer because I say what is going through my mind and share my opinion instead of being straight forward with the assignment.