Theme 2: Reflecting
“I was always thinking”
“The fact that I was always thinking about potential blog posts had me engaging in personal reflection in just about everything we did.”
Sky
“helped me catch fleeting ideas”
“I think it really helped me catch fleeting ideas, fleeting thoughts in class. I know that I need to write 3 blogs so every time I think about things, I write it down. It forced me to make a lot of notes.”
Miley
Other data extracts
It [the blog] actually pushed me to engage. Well, I think it was the content of the course coupled with the blog that pushed me to engage with things on a deeper level. There were always ideas percolating in my head for blog posts. I wrote 3 and I had probably 10 formulated in my mind that just didn’t materialize. I really enjoyed it. And I liked having the freedom to choose which aspect of the course we wanted to engage with on a really personal level. Because that’s always what you end up coming out with, too, is the parts that you really made your own. I really enjoyed that, and it was a new type of learning experience for me. I have always gone through classes where things were very structured. . .the fact that I was always thinking about potential blog posts had me engaging in personal reflection in just about everything we did.
Sky
I think it really helped me to catch the fleeting ideas, fleeting thoughts in class. I know that I need to write 3 blogs, so every time I think about things, I write it down. It forced me to make a lot of notes. And the first blog that I wrote, it was about my own experience and [it] developed into being my final project, which is about language attitudes and ideology. So, I think it really helped me.
Miley
