It's the beginning of a new semester and with that comes the stress of delegating classes, studying, tests, maybe work, family, friends, personal and fun time along with trying to be successful in all areas. Have you ever really thought about how you manage everything in your life? Really thought about it; broken it down sort of thing? Maybe you don't have time to really think about how you manage your everyday life, and maybe it isn't that important to you to think about it. But if you're not thinking about how you manage your life and just going with the flow, chances are you probably don't really think about other issues.
And it's more than just thinking about issues, it's about challenging, questioning, analyzing and exploring issues. Breaking them down into pieces and examining each piece and how they work together to make a whole. Just like a business person or accountant would do with numbers, or how a biologist/chemist would do with cells/atoms and elements.
If this is your first time writing in a blog I challenge you to examine, question and analyze this idea of writing your thoughts or opinions on an internet blog as a journal. How does this make you feel? Uneasy, excited? Consider the fact that you have security settings that you can manipulate and that you are being required to do this for a class rather than a decision you have made on your own. Consider its purpose and who your audience is. Do you want for the whole world, or just for your teacher? What kind of style should you write in depending on that audience? Will you write in first or 3rd person, will you speak directly to an audience or not?Will you put up a picture of yourself? Your interests? Your email address? How much information do you want people to have access to about you? What did you name your own URL? How does it make you feel to have a URL?
This isn't your first time blogging??
If you have had a blog in the past, your own, for my class or for another class, then I challenge you to examine, question and analyze your experience with having a blog. Consider why you had one, how it made you feel, and how you manipulated the security settings for your own sense of security. Consider changes you may make now that you have grown and developed as a writer/blogger. Consider how writing a blog may have helped or hindered your writing ability. Will you continue writing in the same style, tone and voice or are you going to change? Who will be your audience?
So, this is your very first blog prompt/journal entry for the semester!! Are you excited? LOL! Probably not, but that's ok. Maybe, hopefully, eventually, you will begin to actually enjoy this process. Just remember: Always think outside the box!
2 comments:
Hopefully I have managed to successfully create my own blog and this is where I am supposed to comment or respond to Natasha's blog. In the past I have had a blog on Livejournal.com. A website used as an online day to day journal. A few years ago I decided to join Livejournal because many of my friends had their own blogs. As I was new to blogging I decided to have my settings so that only my friends could see my posts. I began posting short blogs about how my days in school were and about my weekends. After a week or two I felt more comfortable blogging about my feelings, my outlooks on life, dreams, and even some poetry I have written. I mostly wrote in the first person, considering that it was a journal for myself to look back on in the future. To this day I prefer writing in the first person. I have always felt that writing in the first person makes the author more tangible to the reader. I feel the reader should be able to compare themselves not only to the events in a writing but also to the author. I found new ideas and perspectives from the blogs posted by my friends and always enjoyed reading new ones. After about two years of blogging on Livejournal I abruptly stopped. It had lost its charm. I log on to Livejournal whenever I feel nostalgic. I find it amazing how vivid all my memories of my posts are. I have become a better writer since then, but I still have more growing to do. In the recent past, before this class began, I made an account on Twitter. I decided to make one because I liked the idea of writing short updates about my daily life and being able to see my friend's updates. I only allow people who I know to follow me. I post updates about funny occurrences in my life, events, pictures of something interesting I see and more. Blogging is a great way to stay connected and to learn of new ideas. I plan to continue blogging until I am an old man and I can no longer keep up with technology.
his is my first time having a blog, hopefully I set up my blogging web page correctly. I diffidently never had to blog especially on for a class with my professor and classmates, so it is kind of new and exciting for me. I think it’s a pleasant and intelligent way for people to express their thoughts and to meet new people. On the other hand I do not have a problem with people knowing too much about me because I like to express myself and I like for people to know who I am. Besides that I think having a blog would be very forgetful for me because I rarely use my laptop, but hopefully I will get it together for my grade. My blog address is Lcharris13.blogspot.com and yes I would be putting up a picture of myself.
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