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Koh's Blog Thoughts
Koh’s Blog Thoughts
After reading my blogs from the beginning of the course, I realized that I started to have more to say in the later ones. At first, I was sort more reserved and sort of held things back. I think that I was simply aware that other students would be reading my blogs and had to comment on them, so I sort of stayed away from expressing my actual point of view on certain subjects. As I got more into the books, I start to show more interest in the subject because of my increasing knowledge and growing opinion. I really liked my blog on David Maywhoor because I was really irritated with his presentation. During his whole lecture, I kept getting tired of him telling us the problem that exists and never giving a solution. I was just so annoyed with his complaining about something and lack of action because talking to us about it wasn’t going to fix the logging issue that he presented to us, so why would he be wasting his time with us when he could be looking for an alternative. This really got me going and my opinion is shown in the post. My least favorite blog is my post on the first reading of Lost Mountain. I mostly didn’t like it because of how it didn’t seem to spark any interest in my readers. Everyone that commented simply said, “I agree…” and didn’t have much else to say that I didn’t already say. I think that this sort of reflected my lack of depth in the post. They weren’t discussing much because I don’t think I wrote anything very noteworthy. However, as the reading of Lost Mountain progressed and we started to have more discussions in class, my blogs started to develop more and I began including more of my own thoughts in the blogs. I think that this is because I started to become more comfortable with the people that would be reading my blogs. In my later comments, I started to include my opinion more on the subjects that people talked about in Lost Mountain. In the second section of reading Lost Mountain, I commented on a few people’s posts how I thought really thought on the issues. Specifically, on Chelsea Stoner’s blog, it is apparent that I have a pretty solid opinion on the matter of the people staying in their hometown that is being destroyed from mountain top removal. I feel like others have had a similar experience as I have had in that comments in later posts seem more opinionated and offer further discussion on the blogs. After watching the movie “Food, Inc” and then blogging about it along with the first part of the reading, I noticed that people were really getting into the subject matter and thinking more into the problems that were presented in the film. It was good to see that others were getting just as interested as I was about the food industry and how much is actually affects us indirectly. This was cool because the comments began to become more of a discussion because people’s opinions were more prominent than previous posts. This most certainly helped with the course readings because it allowed for me to see other people’s opinions and even raised awareness to things I missed in the reading. The film, I think, should have been shown after the reading because I started to lose motivation to read supplement to something that I just watched. It would be better if we’d watched it after reading because the whole time we would read the book, we’d want to watch the movie that it hypes up. Overall, the blogs were a good learning tool that enhanced my learning of the environmental issues covered in class. It took a different route in teaching us how to form and express our opinions.
After reading my blogs from the beginning of the course, I realized that I started to have more to say in the later ones. At first, I was sort more reserved and sort of held things back. I think that I was simply aware that other students would be reading my blogs and had to comment on them, so I sort of stayed away from expressing my actual point of view on certain subjects. As I got more into the books, I start to show more interest in the subject because of my increasing knowledge and growing opinion. I really liked my blog on David Maywhoor because I was really irritated with his presentation. During his whole lecture, I kept getting tired of him telling us the problem that exists and never giving a solution. I was just so annoyed with his complaining about something and lack of action because talking to us about it wasn’t going to fix the logging issue that he presented to us, so why would he be wasting his time with us when he could be looking for an alternative. This really got me going and my opinion is shown in the post. My least favorite blog is my post on the first reading of Lost Mountain. I mostly didn’t like it because of how it didn’t seem to spark any interest in my readers. Everyone that commented simply said, “I agree…” and didn’t have much else to say that I didn’t already say. I think that this sort of reflected my lack of depth in the post. They weren’t discussing much because I don’t think I wrote anything very noteworthy. However, as the reading of Lost Mountain progressed and we started to have more discussions in class, my blogs started to develop more and I began including more of my own thoughts in the blogs. I think that this is because I started to become more comfortable with the people that would be reading my blogs. In my later comments, I started to include my opinion more on the subjects that people talked about in Lost Mountain. In the second section of reading Lost Mountain, I commented on a few people’s posts how I thought really thought on the issues. Specifically, on Chelsea Stoner’s blog, it is apparent that I have a pretty solid opinion on the matter of the people staying in their hometown that is being destroyed from mountain top removal. I feel like others have had a similar experience as I have had in that comments in later posts seem more opinionated and offer further discussion on the blogs. After watching the movie “Food, Inc” and then blogging about it along with the first part of the reading, I noticed that people were really getting into the subject matter and thinking more into the problems that were presented in the film. It was good to see that others were getting just as interested as I was about the food industry and how much is actually affects us indirectly. This was cool because the comments began to become more of a discussion because people’s opinions were more prominent than previous posts. This most certainly helped with the course readings because it allowed for me to see other people’s opinions and even raised awareness to things I missed in the reading. The film, I think, should have been shown after the reading because I started to lose motivation to read supplement to something that I just watched. It would be better if we’d watched it after reading because the whole time we would read the book, we’d want to watch the movie that it hypes up. Overall, the blogs were a good learning tool that enhanced my learning of the environmental issues covered in class. It took a different route in teaching us how to form and express our opinions.
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