Last weekend I wrote a very angry post about the Online Project. Some things have changed. Unfortunately not the feedback problem. I still have not got any feedback, so I have no idea how I am doing in this module.
But apart from that, Jim was very helpful and emailed me on a Sunday (WOW!) to give me some information on how to catch up with the others after my illness.
I am feeling much better now and so I am more than happy that I can still participate in the group blog task. Originally, I fancied a international news blog - because I'm that kind of a serious person. However, I decided to be part of Sophie's blog, called Wandersee. For this project, every team blogger has the task to express what certain words, that were picked in advance, mean to them. Topics of the day are for example wander, boobs and home. I really enjoy that task.
It gives me the opportunity to be more creative. Writing news articles is horribly stiff. But for this blog I can philosophize, express myself in many different ways and use puns. I love to play with the language and that blog is all about language really. It sounds simple, but it is challenging me as well. I go deep into words, do research on similar words or expressions used in the english language and I guess this can't do any harm considering my language skills.
I try to use different media, such as the written word, pictures and paintings but also videos and music. This makes this blog very arty, which is something I'd never guessed I would end up doing. I am very surprised and even impressed with myself.
One night I could not fall asleep as I was thinking about what to write about the word "boobs". Oh god, I really need to get a life.
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Seeing mice - or smelling rats
6 years ago
2 comments:
Anika
Finally getting round to commenting on everyone's blogs - sorry for the delay. I like what you're doing here. I like the way you've really been thinking about what we've done in class.
Your post about Google News was interesting. As a tool, I think it is really useful for information professionals - for people who need to process a lot of news - like you. I'm not sure if it's that useful for ordinary readers... I liked the blog review too.
I agree with your conclusions - something like Random Acts of Reality does become 'journalism' after a while...
You write well on the blog - a personal approach is good. You need to sort out a couple of problems with your English - but let's talk about that in class. You could perhaps add more things to your sidebar - links to sites you read, feeds from news sites etc... But overall, I enjoyed reading this.
Also - remind me tomorrow to talk about the problems caused by pasting in copy from Word - it changes the formating on the type - which is why some of your posts are in Times New Roman, I think
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