Reflection and Questions for Thought

1. Engagement and participation*How often did you blog?
I use my blog once a week at least, especially when I am assigned to finish class tasks and I have free time.

* How did you like to participate in different blogging activities?
Please see my blogging experience below.
*What role(s) did you take in support of your peers' blogging? Why?I think we all still have time to learn more, and have space for improvement. And for a beginner in blogging, encouragement and praise can promote the advancement of being a blogger. So, I take a role of a fosterer that cheer my peers’ blogging by leaving sincere and encouraging messages in the affirmative.
2. Learning How did you connect your blogging experiences with different aspects of learning
*learning goals/objectives: In blogging, I have learned not only the
technical way of bogging but also how to learn English online with so
many tools.
*previous experiences: I have a weblog in wretch before to upload my
photos and post my diaries, but never study how to use weblog functions.
*technological features and functions: See my blogging experience below
please.
*success/failure in learning: See my blogging experience below
please.
*preferred learning styles: The same as my expectation for this weblog’s
management in the future. 3. Language learningHow did you connect your blogging experiences with different aspects of English learning?

* problem-solving: In blogging, I have learned the importance of self-solving.
With self-solving, especially for technical problems, I become more active
to and interested in what I am learning than before. For from this
experience, I have gained a great sense of achievement to solve problems by
myself.

* communication and collaboration: I am appreciate the kindness of my peers.
With their help, I have some tasks done impossible for me, like an
instruction they gave of finishing the Schmooze tasks.

* creativity and production: In my weblog, there are some functions to know
what time it is, leave message to bloggers and so on. These additional
functions of my webblog have helped to enrich my weblog greatly.

* reading, writing, speaking, and listening: Please see my blogging experience
below.

Blogging Experience

Generally speaking, this experience in designing my blog is just the second time I use blog to write something. Therefore, firstly all I can do is just post my articles on my blog teacher assigned to on time, classify those articles according to different themes, like lab experience, weblogs and websites. As for organizing my postings, I did not have ideas to manage it at all. I just change my blog’s color and font, something like that. Later, I went about this work designing my own blog, and even tried to figure out how this programming language, HTNL works. Actually, for me, changing blog’s format and design is troublesome and frustrating. Finally I still could not understand it and wonder why this programming language is tough and unfriendly to me, although in my junior high school, our teacher had taught us students how to use HTML to design our webpages and blogs. So, I thought it is ok, I just stood back to study other easier techniques in designing blog that I have learned, like add some webpage elements and edit them.

Except for something about English learning, I put up another I am really interested in, journalism. My aim in designing my blog is to make it renewable and diversifying, and then make more and more people use this blog in various learning field. Therefore, I encourage myself to be able to persevere with the renewal of this blog.

In sum up, in this semester, I really enjoy the time of blogging. I have learned some skills to organize my blog, and have made it more friendly and feasible for users. In blogging, I am gradually accustomed to search for useful information about language learning, like websites, weblogs, and online assays on the Internet. And then I absorb all these knowledge as possible as I can to make it be my self-understanding, and post my evaluation and reflection on those learning materials in English on my blog. It truly trains me to be a better learner for comprehensive and organized ability. In addition, forming a net to let us students freely browse others’ blog in this course and give feedbacks one another is really a good opportunity for me to get used to interactive learning.