I'm late...

and I probably won't get credit for this, but I don't care. Actually, I highly doubt that most of the class will even read this because it's posted past the due date for comments on posts.

I'm only posting because blogging was my favorite part of this English class. It was just so fun expressing myself and interacting with the class in a way that I otherwise couldn't. I really feel like my writing reflects my personality, in case you guys couldn't tell.

It's probably due to the generation that I'm a part of, but sadly my best mode of communication is online. When I talk online, my Asian accent does not get in the way of my communicating.

Okay this will probably be the last thing people will read because this post is way too long. But I thought this was a really fun experience!

Although blogging is pretty fun (at least in the confines of this classroom setting), it really wasn't that productive in terms of improving my writing. I say this in part because my favorite blog post was when we made a song analysis post. They only turned out successful because it was about songs that each person was interested. I didn't really post any meaningful revision plans. I only posted them because they were required. However it was still slightly helpful because I basically got to pick everyones brain regarding writing habits and tips.

Sometimes when I had to post comment responses most of the times I just agreed and reiterated a previously made comment just to get one out of the way.

The thing that I hated about blogs was the fact that it was just so easy to put off that sometimes I posted blogs and comments too late (just like now), or I never got around to doing them.

Blogging is a cool way to have class interaction, but if you really wanted people to learn from others through blogs maybe you could have different blog assignments. I can't think of any off the top of my head but I never really cared for the revision plan blog posts.

Using the blog

I really enjoyed using the blog because it allowed me to connect my ideas with other classmates. It was a way to get great feedback and stay connected with the class. If I could improve one thing about the blog I would make the assignment of blogging feel more natural rather than an assignment to take care of. Overall I thought it was a success that provided me with helpful feedback from my peers.

blogging on blogger

I had never blogged before the beginning of this class and I see what I missed out on. It worked because it was an outlet for ideas, a place where I can see what my ideas are. However, the comments given by other people were subpar. I found that people just commented just to say something, rather than give help or reasoning to what I was writing on. I found that I did the same thing when I was lazy. It was an effective way of learning because it was a reflection technique it makes me think about what I am doing or just did. However, in the end, the blog was a glorified assignment. If the blog had more feedback, or more constructive feedback, it would have been better.

Using the Blog

It was interesting for me this year to use this blog. What I liked about it was that I felt more tied in to the class, when I was outside of class. It was cool to talk about things related to the class, when we were in a non-classroom setting. It was interesting to see what others in the class had to say about my work, and also to see the comments on the comments. I felt like I could express what was on my mind concerning my work.
Something that I didn't like about this was that I felt that sometimes I was writing on the blog just because I was assigned to. Some of the assignments, to me, were not neccesary and I felt that the blog was pushed too much.

Blog over view

I like the blogs because it was easier to give other classmates feedback and do assignments. I like my peers looking over my posts because they gave me many new ideas that I could incorporate in my papers and brought up some counterarguments to address in my papers to make them better. I would have that my favorite post was the song post because it was interesting to see the perspectives at which other people made their analysis. I also really enjoyed reading the discoveries in research post because I found out new information.

When posting, the fact that my peers were going to read what I wrote did influence my writing and making sure that it looked good. Another good aspect about the blog is that it helped me pick topics for writing that were going to be interesting to other students because of the responses and suggestions to the blog post.

Blogging

Having a blog for an English class is different and for that reason my interest was peeked in the beginning. Most of the assignments were relevant and helped in brainstorming ideas, outlining papers, and learning the interests of classmates. There is this odd sense of bonding and friendship with classmates by using a blog and having to post comments.

Two blog posts that stand out to me as the most interesting included the music post and ideas for our first paper. When people voiced their personal opinion, commenting was a lot easier. The longer the posts, the less I read. The shorter-the better. I felt like this addition to the class added another outlet for writing. It didn't replace the papers, but it allowed us to write to a different audience. While I found myself hurrying to comment on others posts and, like others have said, the comments were a little forced, the outcome of the blog was still beneficial.

I feel a sense of camaraderie with my English 150 classmates that only comes from using the blog together - not because we've seen each other in class 3 days a week for the last few months.

Blog Evaluation from my point of view

When I first found out we had to blog, I had no idea how that was going to turn out. I haven't posted a blog before, and I didn't understand the grading part at first. I was thinking how am I going to get 3 comments from people? They might not even not like what I wrote, after speaking to Sister Cowley of course she explained that I had to write comments, I felt kinda dumb afterward, but got my work done and enjoyed reading what people had to say.
The blogs really helped me stay focused on my papers, and the revision plans helped as well. Although the blog posts for the revision plans did seem repetitive, it helped me to have it written down, because I would actually have to do what I said I was going to do. Another thing I enjoy about our classroom blogging is that I got to see what other people were thinking and their opinions; it made me know the person a little better in a way. I also like reading my comments.

What I didn't like about blogging, is that sometimes I would forget that we had a blog assignment that day. Or some assignments weren't as clear to me, and sometimes I just didn't want to blog. Comment responses, are they really sincere? I didn't want to hurt anyone feelings, so I wouldn't comment what I originally was thinking or I had to find ways to word my comment(s) so I don't offend anyone.

Overall I like the blog, it was something easy to do, not that much stress. I wouldn't make my own blog, because I'm not sure if I could keep up with it or even want my personal information out there on the internet.

thoughts on the BLOG

THE BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!

In general, I really don't like blogs, but this class has helped me learn how to use them and understand them.

Using this blog was a cool new way to learn and I don't think that there is really an aspect of it that didn't help my learning.

I like being able to turn something in that is not on paper, I mean I think it helps me to use this online tool because I'm used to working with things on the internet. I like how flexible the blog is. We can get on anytime and add whatever we want to it. I am new to college and I'm trying to get better at time management but when I slip up, I'm glad my blog homework doesn't have to be in a certain place on paper by a certain time. I can add to the blog from the comfort of my own home. I really like the revision plan blog posts. I think it's interesting to look at all the different ways people respond. Some are very detail oriented and some are quite concise.

A problem for me with the blog is that I do not check it everyday. I rarely go back to my own posts to see what other people have said about them. I feel like although it is cool to be able to see what other people say, I usually pick the shortest looking posts to comment on. I just really don't read the blog very much, so I don't feel like I have true discourse with my peers.

The end. The blog was a pretty fun way to do homework. yay!

How was the blog?

I was a little skeptical at first. Wasn't sure how it was going to work. But overall I thought it was fun. Made the class different from just the normal english class that we're all used to. It helped me realize that the things we learn in english apply to more than just academic papers.
One thing that I didn't like too much about it was the required number of comments. I understand why it has to be that way (I can't honestly say that I would have commented, or read other posts for that matter, if I wasn't required to). But a lot of the time they seemed empty of any real meaning. Too formulaic "I agree with _____" etc. If the posts were on things that everyone would be curious what the other person would say, then they would read and comment easily, but that's the hard part I guess.
Maybe if we had been given an assignment now and then to just write on anything we wanted, it would have made the blog more personal and fun.

Blog Evaluation

I wasn't a big fan of the blog. I didn't feel like it improved my writing. The blog seemed more like busy work that actual earning. I felt that the comments and comment responses were particularly unhelpful. People were mostly trying to get the required number of comments in and didn't care about what they were saying. If it was more convenient to agree with the blog, then they would agree. I don't think the fact that other students read my writing had a big effect on what I wrote. All of had to write the same thing, so when I was reading it, I looked at what other people wrote as an assignemt rather than what they had to say.

The blog did help me with time frames for my papers. Having to have certain things on the blog at certain times made me get my papers done in a timely maner. I also learned how to use blogger. It is a lot easier than I thought it would be. Additionally, the blog was good for small assignments because it saved paper, when we only writing a paragraph or so.

Yay!

I must say, at the beginning of the semester I was not too hip on this idea of blog posting. I saw it as busy work, something I wouldn't have time for. But as we started to post things, I really started to like it. It helped me to more effectively communicate the thoughts that were going through my head about the papers we had to write. I'm the kind of person who likes to think about what to write for a while, then sit down and just crank it out. And, I hate outlining, so this was a great way for me to get my arguments down without really making a formal outline, but still help to organize what I was going to write. I also really liked that the blog posts were usually things that would help us to get our papers done, like when we would have to post our intro or a paragraph or two of our papers, then have people comment on them.
Speaking of comments, I didn't really see their usefulness. Personally, I just did them because I was getting points to write things, so I don't think I put as much thought into it as I probably should have... and usually none of the comments I received on my posts were very helpful in the writing process. I mean, I can see how they COULD be really helpful, if people were actually writing whole-heartedly, but otherwise it was just something else we had to do. I don't know, maybe I'm weird and I was the only one, but that's just my take on it.
Overall, blogs are awesome! I liked it a lot! :)

Blog

This blog has helped tremendously in my writing. It forced me to actually start writing my paper before the day it was due. I am a big procrastinator. This blog has forced me to at least think about writing almost everyday. It also gave me an opportunity to have other opinions on my writing. I usually don't ask people to read my paper but having a second opinion opened my eyes to flaws i didn't see myself. I also seemed to write better when I knew that other people would actually be reading it.

My favorite posts have been the drafts of my papers. That way I could get opinions before actually turning it in for a grade. This way a lot of my problems were fixed before my review with Sistrer Cowley. My least favorite posts have been the revision plans. It always felt like I was saying the same thing over and over. I always needed to work on the same things. I think the blog is better then handing in paper assignments because it saves trees and allows the entire class to be involved in helping everyone else with their papers. This way there is lots of differing opinions instead of just a few opinions. It is like a better way to peer review. And you can do it on your own time instead of having to wait for someone else to have time to read your paper.

Blog Evaluation

Upon the completion of this semester, I found the class blog to be a very helpful and fun to use tool. It allowed me to post my own opinions on how to write and revise the papers that we have written as well as receive feedback from others. Through the blog, I was able to understand people's opinions better. By reading other's posts, I received advice on how to go about writing or revising my papers. I also was enlightened by different ideas that I would have never thought of myself. I enjoyed how easy the blog works--the format, the user-friendliness, and for the New Media Classroom link to help us understand what we needed to do. I liked the comment system and how others could comment on your own posts. However, I feel that some posts were not really that important or relevant, such as the song lyrics. Besides this, the blog was a great tool. It was especially helpful to submit some of our drafts and paragraphs of our writing onto the blog in order to get peer feedback as well as to help discipline me to get parts done at a time. While it was a bit impersonal to communicate through comments, it was still an efficient and simple way to do so. Publicizing my thoughts to the class helped me with refining my writing. Overall, I enjoyed the blog and would encourage that it be continued for future classes.

Blogs :)

I liked the blog. It was a fun tool to use in a classroom setting. The blog posts were especially good at the beginning of the semester when we were able to use it to facilitate discussions on the different topics. It was great to be able to have discussion outside of the classroom. It was helpful in writing our first paper, especially, when it was very important to understand the counterargument. After that, though, I didn't find the blogs as useful. The comments and responses became very hard to do. Whenever I was working on my post there were little to no other posts I could respond to. In addition to this, some posts were difficult to even post anything on at all because of the subject matter.

Blog Evaluation

I really enjoyed the blog posts that we were supposed to write. I liked how we could do it whenever and wherever we wanted to. It was on our time but there were still deadlines that we needed to meet. I thought it was really important that we needed to comment on other classmates posts so that we felt there was actually a reason to writing the posts and getting feedback.
Some of the problems I saw were also about the comments and comment responses. Many people only wrote comments that were not helpful at all but were only written to fulfill the requirements. The comments responses also made you have to rely on the other students in the class to comment on your post or one of your comments. I found that sometimes people had not responded to my blog or my other comments.
I really found myself hesitant to say what I was actually thinking because I did not want to hurt any ones feelings in any way. I see myself as very opinionated and felt that I could easily hurt others feelings who are prone to taking constructive criticism the wrong way, even if no offense was meant. So many times I did not really write down what I thought because I did not know how the person would react.

Blog Analysis

I have really enjoyed using the blog. I like it better than traditional assignments because of the freedom of it. I am able to log on where ever and start typing, rather than have it in print form due a certain time. I like being able to work on it whenever I have time. I also like that we have the opportunity to comment on each other's blogs. What I do not like about the comments is that our grade is somewhat dependent upon the other students. Sometimes I have had to wait for the other students to post something before I can make a 4-5 required comments. And a lot of the time, the comments would be pointless, saying something obvious just so that they commented and got the grade.

My favorite assignment was doing a small rhetorical analysis on a song. Doing that small assignment made me think of what my music is trying to say, so now I listen more intently to the lyrics and the message of the music. So that was a cool assignment that I enjoyed, but some of the assignments seemed pointless. They felt like busy work, which no one likes. So maybe if the assignments were more legit - NOT HARDER, just with a greater purpose :)

Overall, I enjoyed the blog and hope that it is continued because of convenience and freedom of it.

Revision plan

I will sort out my thoughts, split them into their own paragraphs, shorten the paragraphs I already have, get things condensed into the more important aspects.

Revisions...

1. Reorganize my paper to help the flow of ideas and paragraphs

2. Talk to high school students (sisters and their friends) to see how their teachers use new media and use those examples in my paper

3. Find stronger quotations from articles to help my argument

4. re-write and take it back to Sister Cowley by Friday

5. Read out loud to somebody to fix errors and make sure my ideas flow and everything leads back to my thesis

Issues paper revision plan

This that I plan on doing-from top to bottom of the list.

1. Fix minor errors on puncuation and grammar

2.Develop and add information needed to what I have on multi-tasking.

3. Add new information to develop new areas of my topic.

4. Make sure that I have good transitional sentences and that my thesis is connected to throughout my paper.

5. Make sure that I get to the pages requirement.

6. Try to have all the above done before friday to show to Sister Cowley one last time

Revising my Issues Paper

I am pretty pleased with where I am on my paper right now. I need to go to the writing center to get help with citing my sources. I've already started working on the things Sister Cowley and I talked about (procratinating starting my American Heritage paper). I am worried about length. My paper is already a full 11 pages and there is still another section that Sister Cowley and I agree needs more information. I may actually have to cut some information from my paper. I think I picked too broad a subject.

I'm going to revise sooo much you have no idea

Well, after conferencing with Sister Cowley, I've decided on the main things that I need to work on. My first two paragraphs are apparently really terrible, so I'm going to need to change them completely. I was told, by more than one person, that my introduction was too lengthy. So, I'm going to shorten my introduction, making my main points clear and concise. All of my paragraphs are really long too (I think each paragraph is around one page), so I'm goingg have to reconstruct my paragraphs. I've also come across new sources that I would like to include in my paper. I'm really excited to revise my paper!

Plan for the paper for the rest of the week

Regarding my paper,

I will change the main source that I use to introduce my topic to something more scholarly than Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia is an interesting and often informative source, my paper is severely discredited by having it so abundantly cited in the beginning. I plan to spend a portion of my Wednesday evening working on this.

I need to incorporate and "deal with" the counter argument more. This shouldn't be too difficult because there is a lot of great evidence for the other side, I just need to spend time collecting it. This will happen on Thursday around 3 or 4 pm.

I need to edit grammar and I would like to vary sentences and make sure that things flow nicely with transitions but these changes can be made later, after content is adjusted. After I make these changes I will maybe take my paper to the writing center... after class on Friday around 9 am. I like to take things there so I can get a second opinion and see if my paper makes sense to someone who has not been a part of the major drafting process.

That's the plan.

censor new media, or censor my paper?

For my revision plan I am hoping to:
1. Double check my resources, make sure they are relevant and flow within my paper
2. Work on citations
3. Check the flow of my paper, make it flow better
4. Address any counter arguments
5. Meet with the writing center
6. work on connecting my thoughts and the sources back to my thesis and support my argument better

Basically, I need to make my paper rockin...

Revising revising revising

I am going to have to do a lot of work on my paper. I have to find better statistics. Then I have to go through and make sure my argument makes sense. Then I have to go into more detail with some of my arguments. Then I am going to visit the writing center on Friday because i haven't done that yet this semester and this is basically the last paper. Hopefully they will be able to help me perfect my paper. or at least get close to perfect.

Issues Paper Revision Plans

1. Get to minimum page limit, add more content, there are still examples that haven't been put in.

2. Answer the question, 'so what?' I made points and examples, but try to give reasons why they relate to the thesis statement.

3. Add sentences that connect the paper.

4. Answer the thesis statement after every paragraph, to try and guide the reader to my main point. Focus your main point, that video games are not as detrimental as they are seen.

5. Change the footnotes to actual citations.

6. The 'Social Rules' section needs to be fixed up to fix with the context of the paper or cut out or replaced

7. Improper quoting! Get thereal meaning from the quote

8. Back up the claims made

9. Make sure that the reader know what you are arguing, focus the reader to the pros and cons of social computer gaming.