Blogging Around

Nick's post described some of the positives and negatives of blogging. He said how blogging was useful in remembering what went on during the week and in developing good writing. However, he also said that he was stuck sometimes, because he couldn't think of anything to write about the prompt that we were assigned.

"Nick,

I agree that blogging was very useful for recording ideas and learning about myself through writing. However, like you, there were several times when I simply had nothing to say about a particular prompt. Maybe good way Mr. Allen could have prevented this would be to have us use whichever prompt we wanted for each week, but make sure that we used each one at least once before using the same one twice. That way, we could pick a prompt that we actually had something to say about."


Mitch's blog also discussed positives and negatives of blogging. He said that, while writing blogs was helpful for him, sometimes he wished the prompts were more interesting and fun to write about.

"Mitch,

I agree with your post, though I think it would be almost impossible to have a prompt that is simultaneously interesting and pertinent to class. These two things tend to be polar opposites. Whenever we do something for school, whether it be reading a book (even a good one), or writing blog posts, it sucks all the fun out of it. That being said, just because writing blogs wasn't fun doesn't mean that it wasn't worthwhile and valuable, which apparently both you and I think it was."