ONLY positive!

Connections between the blogging project and the activities that take place in class come to my mind clearly and in quantity. There are many reasons why the project and activities correlate with each other. The main idea that I see both elements share is the tendency to promote further discussion which then hopefully leads to more thought provoking conversation on the text or ideas being covered. Both seem to attempt to engage the student further into the text or topic by making him or her dive deeper in to the content and not be complacent and only read the assignment but instead ponder it as well.

The blogging assignments definitely extend the reading process in many ways; it requires one to further engage, it requires one to absorb the text and ignites one's interest (well mine) to further discover the context and background of the text and author. In my opinion there are all positives towards blogging, such as extending the reading process and requiring one to further their writing skills because of the need of quality blog assignments.

I believe the blogging process and assignments have truly helped me further engage with the text than I usually would in a literature course. It makes me think about what I have previously read, reflect upon it and then write and discuss my ideas. I believe it has formed me into a better reader than I was before coming into the course and helped me progress my writing skills. Even though I enjoy blogging about our reading assignments at one point during the previous weeks I became a little complacent with fully engaging within my blogs and discussions. Although this is true, I came to the realization that I was missing out on the learning experience and immediately jumped back to work and have been doing my best to engage and learn more through the reading process and blog discussions. I now have nothing but positive feelings towards Blogs and discussions!