Through blogging I learned many things about my writing. I learned that I love writing and learning about basketball. I really enjoy learning more statistics about teams and players. I learned that writing about basketball tends to lead me to want to write the same types of posts, but I had to stay away from it. I wanted each post to be sort of a top 5, but I quickly learned that doing the same thing over and over again is boring. Readers don’t want to read blog posts with the same format that just have a different topic. I learned how to use weebly, and format my blog to look organized. If my blog was messy it would have been hard to read.
I wish we spent more time in class learning about introductions and conclusions because that was where my blogs tended to struggle. I am not very good at hooking the reader in and ending with them wanting more. I wish we spent less time with commenting during class. We took a lot of time just doing our comments during class. I found myself several times getting off topic and off task because of the long periods of time where all we did was sit and work on posts and comments. I was surprised how easy and difficult blogging can be. It was very challenging for me to find a topic I could write a lot about and have it remain interesting. It was also easy though because once I found that topic writing the post was easy. My favorite part of blogging was being able to become a better writer while still learning about basketball. It made the posts easier to write since they were about something I enjoy. My least favorite part was trying to put the statistics I found into words and trying to phrase things correctly. I found it difficult to put what I was trying to say into phrasing that made sense. I enjoyed blogging more than enjoyed writing poetry. I liked seeing my posts improve and change as we wrote more posts. Overall I enjoyed blogging more than I thought I would.
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Dear readers,
Thank you all for coming back week after week to read my posts. Also thank you for the feedback on each post. The comments I received were very good, and also included great constructive criticism. I have enjoyed writing the post for you guys, learning more about sports through the process, and seeing my writing improve as I wrote more and more posts. I hope you also saw the improvements in my writing as time went on. Blogging was something I’d never tried before, and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. In the beginning I thought it would be kind of boring and difficult to do. Once I learned that blogs can be about pretty much anything it became easy. Blogging allowed me to learn more about basketball while still relating it to school. It led me to follow the NBA more closely than I would have normally. Thanks again, John DeMarino |
AuthorJohn, he is in 9th grade, and has been in love with basketball since he was 6 years old. Archives
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