Grade-wise, they're a double-edged sword- 15 free points is helpful, but 0/ 15 is horribly punitive for forgetting a small assignment- larger than the penalty for a late large assignment.
That said, they're usually fun. Once you make it to the keyboard, there's no pressure, you can just write whatever makes sense. Some of the topics are a bit hard to follow- perhaps for next year, link to an exemplar (from this year) below each topic, if you keep the same ones.
Blogs let me write like I'm talking, and I enjoy that. For the paragraph above, I started with
"Some of the prompts are, like, what?"
I wrote that, and then thought
That's not proper! And it doesn't make as much sense!
So I fixed it.
While I'm stuck in a loophole of thinking about what I'm thinking while I'm thinking about what to think, I'll share a cartoon with you all.
You may need to click to see it all.
1 comment:
Thomas, I thought you had some great thoughts on here. Whereas I normally take a long time to express a point when writing it, you got the jist of my feelings regarding blogging in some very few sentences. I too feel like the informality (though, yes, the reigns do need to be kept somewhat tight) makes for easy writing and some real thinking that isn't TOO forced. Of course we're going to have some days where we just don't know what to write about a certain assignment, but at least this way we don't have to sound like calculating, expository geniuses while trying to pretend as though we do know what to say.
And by the way, great cartoon. Poor cheerleaders.
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