Before this project, I knew a lot about blogging because I read one just about every day. It was definitely something I found interesting, but I never thought I would be able to manage a blog all by myself. Not only did it seem like a big responsibility, but I knew I would never be able to come up with an interesting post every week. However, after doing this English blog for nine weeks now, I feel like I could really get the hang of this and one day I would actually enjoy having my own blog with real followers. By starting at the bottom, I can actually see myself moving forward with this hobby and creating a really involved and complicated blog. This is the first reason I really enjoyed this blogging project, it really helped me learn about blogging, something I was always interested in before but probably never would have actually done.
Every week, whether it was in English class or any other time, any time something interested came up, I immediately thought of a way I could incorporated whatever it was into my blog. I also really enjoyed the blogs because I thought about English in a much different way than I did before. I tried to find creative approaches to write interesting things that always related to our English reading, discussion, or work. This gave English class so much more variety, while also making English more of a part of my life. Instead of dreading long in-class essays or Data Sheets, I actually enjoyed sitting in front of my computer and typing my blog, and everything was even more enjoyable when I made it on Bobbie's Blog Banter the next day. Not only did I enjoy writing my blog, but I LOVED reading other people's blogs. Some people are very quiet in class, and usually things stay very on-topic. So, it was a lot of fun reading the different opinions and stories of everyone.
Without the blogs, we would've never have experienced Bobbie's Blog Banter. And now, with the addition of music, the beginning of English class is guaranteed to be entertaining. The intense competition of discussions got toned down a little, because the competition to be featured on the show is definitely a much healthier one. The blogging allowed us to take a more light-hearted approach to English, now that as students we see that it is perfectly fine not to analyze every single thing that is put before us. Now we all have grown not only as English students, but as normal human beings.
All in all, I had a great experience with the blogs and I really hope we continue with them next semester. Even with the reemergence of poetry papers, I think I would really like having this blog as an outlet to all the craziness from English. Plus I really think it let all of us get closer, because everyone's reading things from their classmates that they probably wouldn't have ever before. And what better time to get close to your fellow AP English-ers than the 2nd semester of our senior year?
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