Commenting Review Week

The commenting portion of this class is very cool. I like that we get to connect with other students and see other writing styles. It's also fun commenting on introduction posts and learning where people are from and what they like and stuff. It's also fun finding similarities between myself and another classmate. Some of the most interesting posts have come from Introduction posts. Especially since a lot of us in this class seem to be majoring or minoring in Psychology and we all seem to get paired for commenting. Comments have also been very encouraging because sometimes I do not feel very confident in my writing and then I will read my comments about my stories and others point out the good things that they liked about my story. When I comment on other people's blogs I tend to focus on the very best things that I love about their stories. And if I do see something that I am confused about, I will ask a question about it. Which is also the reason why I also like the comment wall. I like that there is separate place for questions and positive comments, or to connect with other classmates and talk about whatever we like. Overall, I have enjoyed the commenting so far this semester.

(Just a silly little meme. )

Reading Review Week: Reading Review

When looking back on the readings I really enjoyed, many of them were very recent readings. Some of my favorite series of stories came from the Chinese Fairy tales, African stories, Life of Buddha, and Arabian nights units. For many of them I only enjoyed the first half of some of the readings. I am not sure why that was. I would always read the first half of a reading and then feel really bored with the second half and have a hard time finishing it. I did not feel this way about the Chinese Fairy tales and Arabian nights units. I also really liked the African stories unit and wish I could have done the other half of the reading because I really liked every single story in the first half. Some note taking strategies I use for my reading diary posts are I usually try to connect stories from our readings to possible storytelling posts of my own. I feel that by doing this I can have many ideas on what I want to write for a storytelling post. Reading diaries are also helpful because sometimes I forget some parts of a story, and going back to the key parts of the stories helps me remember important parts on the stories. Sometimes I do read these stories for fun. Some stories are very relatable in a sense, or I am familiar with them and just want to read them again. There are also some stories that I have read and I could not get any inspiration for writing a storytelling post. One thing that I might change about the dynamic of the reading diary is have more options of readings. There have been weeks were I really could not find a reading that I was really into or it took me awhile to find one that I liked. Having two options each week is great, but sometimes I wished I had the earlier readings first because I have really enjoyed the reading recently.

(A meme that I thought was pretty funny. )