The Uber-Post

Over the past few weeks, I have seen a change of theme in my blogging patterns.  In the beginning, I looked online for a news article that stimulated my interest and then wrote about it.  Over the next few weeks I transitioned to writing about the topics from class discussions, and then finding a news article pertinent to the subject.  In general, I like to write about recent technological finds and then debate about how they could possibly affect our society positively or negatively.  Also, I like to write about education and equal opportunity.  Since I have strong opinions about these things, they were easy to blog about.

I noticed that I tend to ask direct questions that I want my readers to answer, because I want them to focus on those specific points, and not be completely free to comment on anything I say.  These questions are usually big picture, for example, in my post, "Video Game Craze in Japan," I ask the question, "Which do you think is more important?  The person's life or the town?"  Here I am trying to direct the readers to ponder a specific problem, then give a thoughtful answer and why they think that.  This interests me more than a commentary on my topic.  I could improve by trying not to direct the readers to answer a specific question, but leave it more open ended, and also make my point in less words.  I see the lengthyness problem in Education Americana where it looks like a daunting block of text and even I am not interested in going through it.

As I reread my work, I was surprised about what caught my reader's attention by having the most hits and the most comments.  This was a post about video games and a hint at the theme of portrayals of women at once. I think that the subject of women's roles is worth re-visiting because a lot of females are in our class and they would probably have a lot to say about a topic like that.

In my blogging, I value the idea that the conversation doesn't have to end at the end of the class period, because I usually have an opinion that I haven't been able to put forth due to time limitations.  This shows in my blogging about topics from class discussions, like the heated debate on race and education.  I chose to continue the discussion on the blog.

Edited: 10/25