Extra Credit Post

When this course started and we were introduced to the group blog idea I was very skeptical.  I’m not a huge fan of group work and I don’t like other people being responsible for my grades and vice versa.  I also didn’t know how we would organize our blog.  I was worried that the brunt of the work would be placed on one person.  Luckily with my group that didn’t happen and we were all really good about splitting the work evenly.  We did have a few mix ups because we always split up the work which made it difficult to remember who was responsible for the blog that week.  I also felt like it would be difficult to write the blog because I was worried that our ideas wouldn’t all be the same.  That wasn’t the case though because even when we didn’t see eye to eye on everything we were all willing to listen to the others’ ideas and thoughts which allowed us to grow and learn different ideas.  Our blog never really matched up to our manifesto simply because I don’t think we completely understood the blog assignment when we wrote our manifesto.  We planned to make it much more exciting than it ended up being and I think part of that was our schedule.  Everyone in my group had a very full schedule this semester and I think that was part of the reason that our blog was a bit dry.  We did try to include interesting views and ideas into our blog and I think that matched up well with our original manifesto.  We just kind of struggled because when one of us was busy it seemed like all of us were busy.  I didn’t expect so many students to have such different interpretations of each reading.  It really gave me the opportunity to learn because it allowed me to read others’ interpretations and compare them to mine.  I am a fan of learning from different ideas and perspectives and this blog assignment really allowed me to do so.  Had I not been exposed to other blogs I might not have ever realized the different ways that the text could be understood.  By reading other blogs I was equipped with every weapon I could have for class discussion because I could reference my fellow classmates’ blogs and ideas.  This assignment really allowed me to grow and learn in terms of understanding the texts that we read in this course.