Entry 13: Meeting Learning Outcomes with Blogs

 How Did These Blogs Meet My Learning Outcomes For Class?

There are many reasons that the blogs I made this semester supported my learning and helped to achieve the learning outcomes on page 1 of the syllabus. Keeping a blog helped me to meet the first learning outcome because I wrote about a variety of genres in my blogs and this blog is an example of another format for reading and writing through. Keeping a blog also supported my learning of how important purpose and audience are, as stated in learning outcome 2. I had a specific purpose for each blog entry and my audience was meaningful because it was my classmates and my professor. This blog also supported my learning of the relationship between the reading and writing process, from learning outcome 4. I was given the opportunity to read and respond to classmate's blogs throughout the semester and this is one way that I noticed how important the relationship between reading ad writing is. This blog also supported the opportunity to talk about the relationships between reading and writing. 

I also was given the opportunity to learn a different type of assessment for writing, a blog, which is learning outcome 6. This has given me the chance to learn how students need to use all of the steps of the writing process to write their blog posts. This opportunity taught me that writing blogs can be an alternative assessment to writing and the writing process. I also feel that I fulfilled the learning outcome of cognitive processes and strategies of reading and writing, which was learning outcome 3. I was able to use the steps of the writing process, metacognitive strategies and other cognitive strategies while writing my blog posts. 

I also learned to appreciate many modes and formats for reading and writing besides on traditional paper. I learned that students can write online in a format similar to a blog while still achieving learning goals. I also learned what other classmates are doing in their classrooms or in their future classrooms. I was given the opportunity to read about strategies or lessons that I might not have known about without the blogs. I appreciate the opportunity to not only write about my own ideas but to read other classmates ideas. I also learned to hold my work to higher standards because of the authentic audiences. I not only was given the opportunity to question and wonder about our readings but I was also given a place to write all of my ideas into one consolidated blog. I have appreciated the opportunity to ask questions, answer questions, gain new ideas, and comment on one another's work.