A Ending Thought, for now...

Blogging has been more interesting than I originally gave it credit for.  There is a lot of honest and well thought out posts from multiple students.  I was skeptical at first at what I’d learn from blogging to pieces by some writer I truly don’t care about—but then came the topics.  Google is Making Us Stupid, America the Illiterate, Literacy in Metaphors, and New Literacy.  I by far liked being able to candidly say whatever the hell I wanted about all of these readings, and honestly I didn’t really care if anyone else agreed with my arguments or not, but it was nice to be able to place them somewhere.  All of the sources got some kind of rise, or excitement out of me that I wasn’t aware I’d feel when starting this project.  It’s amazing not only what you learn about yourself but also what you learn from other’s opinions.

I’ve learned to look at blogging as becoming a credible source of writing, although I’m not 100% convinced I do think it holds substantial merit.  Same with how I few literacy and illiteracy in general, I realized neither are cut and dry.  They are both complicated and need to be looked at from multiple angles.  My web habits haven’t changed substantially, other than creating this blog and trying to balance how long I’m on Facebook with how long I read the news for.  I think the biggest change actually came about early on when thinking about the type of writing I did—and thus the realization that very few things were handwritten, thus I started a journal along side with writing these blog posts.  Of course my journal is more superficial, but it’s nice to also write about the events that happen in the news.  All in all its been a nice change and a cool way of writing about important topics in a free form way