The task of keeping a blog...

Even though writing is one of the more complex skills, it helps a lot to express our ideas and become others aware of what our thoughts are by our writing style. The more we write, the more people can have an approach to our minds. This is why; the usage of blogs has been a very simple and useful tool for the ones who enjoy, or maybe, needed to express their thoughts in one way or another, because that is what they are for. People are able to write about whatever they want!

Since each one of us is the owner of one of this websites (or maybe more than one), we can choose if it is going to be turned into either an informal or formal style. It depends on us and what we are going to write about. In our case, our pieces of writing have been very different one from the other, which has been a great advantage. It has been easier to organise our ideas, and has let us write in a free and informal way, it does not mean that it has been a messed up way of writing.

For example, writing about our least favourite subject at school, allowed us to put all kinds of adjectives. It was a more relaxed writing. In contrast, when we wrote about the two books, especially about Rumble Fish, it demanded us more thinking in terms of the adjectives, these had to be more accurate according to the theme. However, we did not even notice how little by little our posts improved in terms of writing style, it became easier to come up with ideas and get the connection between them.

Every time a person uploads a post, their contacts have the opportunity to write comments about it. One of the “disadvantages” that this having-a-blog-process has, I mean, as a learning tool for our class, is that comments should be on the posts, in order to contrast ideas, and also we had to be more aware about our grammar. Nevertheless we enriched our vocabulary by the new words and expressions used by our classmates.

As a conclusion, since most young people have already gotten rid of this tech fear, it is good to encourage them to make use of these technological tools in order to improve their writing, and make the most of their learning process, by posting, making comments, therefore reflecting, and sharing their points of view with others.