Final Blogpost Reflection

      As part of our methods of evaluation in the Journey in Literature English class we had to create a blog. The main purpose of it was to make us, the students, reflect about the readings made in class. After each reading and/or activity we attended we had to write a blogpost about it. One of the various requirements for the blog was to layer it. It was necessary to add links, pictures and videos to make it more interesting. Also, another requirement was that we needed to have a total of ten blogs. I know to some it may not seem like much, but to me it did. At the beginning, I wasn’t very fond of the idea of having to do a blog; I guess it was because I had never done one before. 

 

    At first, it was a little tedious learning to set up the blog but I quickly got the hang of it. I really started to enjoy having to write the blogs because, in fact, it made me concentrate on the readings even more so than before. One of my favorite things to do was to read my group’s blogs and give them some feedback. Furthermore, to me it is always interesting to see how various people can interpret the same reading in different ways. You can always learn a great deal from other people’s points of view. Looking back, I got to say that my top two favorite posts from my blog have to be Day as a Tourist and Life is a Trip, because those were the ones that I liked writing the most.

     Overall, even though it is time consuming, I think that the blog is a nice and different way to evaluate students. Some students like it and some don’t, but it’s cool to change things up every once in a while.  If it had not been for this class assignment I don’t think I would have ever done a blog. Nevertheless, I am glad that I got to experience what doing one is like.