Optional Weblog

For this last weblog, we are supposed to talk about what we liked or disliked about using these posting for class.

I really liked posting blogs for class just because I usually only get to the deeper understanding of a piece of literature after we have read it, discussed it in class I have given myself some time afterward to think about a little. Often, I have these “revelations” about stories or poems not immediately after reading them, but after the class is over and the discussion has finished (yes, I know, that probably means I’m a little slow). Posting the weblogs gave me a little chance to let the readings stew in my mind until I decided what I wanted to say about them.

This semester, I also took English 309—contemporary women poets—which was taught so that we only attended classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays every three weeks. The other two weeks we were required to submit online responses to poems through email. For the class evaluation, I actually recommended that the instructor use a system similar to the weblogs, because I felt that if, instead of emailing our responses to the instructor, we posted them in a way that the other students in the class could read them it might make up for the discussion that is lost by having class so rarely.

A regret I have is that, as the semester got further away from me than I expected, I didn’t read or comment on the other students’ weblogs as much as I would have liked to. Every week, I would be busy and plan to comment on someone else’s bog the next week. Inevitably, the next week became the next and so on, until I realized that we are done posting and there is not a next week. Also, though it was not required to take such an outstanding effort to be creative with these blogs, I would have liked it better had I done something extraordinary and unique with my blog instead of simply discussing topics.