Survey on Blogging and Writing

Cambri Bigleman
March 5, 2007

Survey on Blogging and Writing

1) Overall, I liked the format of blogging because I was able to receive feedback from other students as well as yourself. The only frustration that I came across as far as the blogging format was that I had many difficulties accessing the Zocalo website at home. I enjoy reading others’ blogs because it helps me to get a better sense of what I am writing about and I am able to see how others incorporated their own thoughts and ideas into the assignments. I did most of my assignments on campus, which was in a way inconvenient because I would have rather done them at home. The blogging format is easy and quick and you are able to receive responses rather quickly, as to writing a paper, turning it in to the instructor and then waiting to get feedback. Through blogging I feel that we are able to get some comments, ideas and thoughts from many individuals.

2) Through blogging I feel that I was much more aware of my audience because I knew that everyone had access to my blog. I feel that I put much more thought into my writing because I felt like I had prove that I understood the assignment and that I was capable of writing a piece of work that sounded sophisticated and also met the criteria of the assignment. During the beginning of the course I felt like my blog was my personal writing space, but through the duration of the course I was soon aware that many individuals in my class were reading my blog entries. I think that it would be nice if there was a way that we could mark which entries we would like to be private (just for you to read) and then the rest could be left for others to read.

3) I feel that because you are not face-to-face with the individual that you are peer editing you are able to give much more critical feedback. I feel that if I were peer editing someone’s paper that was sitting right next to me, I would give much more positive feedback and not give them any criticism because I would feel bad or awkward. Through being able to peer-edit through the blogs, I am able to give much better feedback as far as what they would change, incorporate or elaborate on.

4) I often times read other students’ blogs without commenting on them because through their writing I was able to get ideas and incorporated them into my own. I also liked to see how other students in the class interpreted the assignment and what they decided to include in their writing.

5) I didn’t really use the blogging format in a fun and playful way. I took all of the assignments seriously and tried to write responses the best that I could. When we were assigned assignments that were meant to be fun I definitely feel that I incorporated playful elements into my writing.

6) I feel that overall the blogging format was very productive because we were able to complete the assignments, as well as view others work, peer-edit and receive feedback from you. I feel that you did a good job in facilitating our blogging and it in fact made it much more productive and easy.