I believe that the quality of my writing
has improved tremendously over the course of the trimester. One way I believe that my writing has
improved is by the length of the blog posts.
At the beginning of the trimester I wrote really short blog posts that
were not very detailed. Towards the end
of the trimester my blog posts started to pick up in length and they stared to
improve with detail. My vocabulary also
improved over the course of the trimester.
Also, throughout the trimester I improved upon changing up the
vocabulary. In one of my first blog
posts I repeated words such as harmful two or three times in a row when I could
have used a different word such as dangerous.
Looking at my reading connections blog post from the end of the
trimester there are not words that are repeated over and over again. One thing at the beginning of the trimester
that I struggled with was adding in URL’s.
Such as with one of my first few blog posts I did on marijuana. I reflected on an article I read on
CNN.com. In my blog post I never added
the link of the article so someone would be able to access it themselves. Although towards the end of the trimester in
the reading connections blog post I had added in pictures and links to an article
on bullying. At the beginning of the
trimester I really didn’t have a point to my blog posts. On my marijuana blog post from the beginning
of the trimester I really didn’t do anything but restate what I read in the article
and state the obvious such as “Marijuana is harmful”. Towards the end of the trimester in my
reading connections blog post I used outside information by finding other
sources and put more thought into my post other than just restating what was
going on the novel at the certain point in time. My overall progress over the trimester I would
say has been tremendous and I am very happy as to where I currently am in
blogging.
After improving my blogging over the course
of the trimester there were things in the process that I struggled with. One thing that I struggled with was adding in
my progress from Goodreads.com. I was
able to update my blog and I was able to update Goodreads.com but when we had
to transfer our progress from Goodreads.com to blogger there seemed to be
issues. It was challenging for me to
insert my quotes and books into my blogs.
Lastly, I was challenged by the two blog posts a week. It was a lot of reading and after a while I would
run out of things to blog about. Looking
back on this trimester, I have noticed that a lot of my blog posts are very
similar. A few of my blog posts state
the same things just in different ways because I was at my breaking point and I
had nothing to blog about. As you can
see I have had a few challenges there was something that I was really good at
when blogging. If you go back and look
through my blog posts from the beginning of this trimester to the end you will
notice that almost every one of my blog posts have an addition or added in URL. I was really good at making sure I had a good
use of pictures and added in links to my blog posts. For example in my reading connections blog
post there were two pictures and an article on bullying statistics linked
in. In my very first blog post based on
my summer reading project there was an embedded video, a picture, and a linked
in article from CNN.com. Throughout the
whole trimester I would say embedding links and pictures into my blog posts was
a strength. On Goodreads.com I had set a
goal of five books. I did not meet my
reading goal this trimester. I did enjoy
using Goodreads.com. I really liked that
I was able to get book recommendations from other peers and see what they have
read and liked or disliked. I also used
Goodreads.com to update where I was in my books. Overall I have really enjoyed my experience
this trimester with blogger and Goodreads.com.
