Week 30: Game Over

Once again, the end of the term has arrived, and with it, the final hours of this blog. This experience was slightly different from the last one, and I would like to comment on it.

In my humble opinion, the prompts for each post were, in contrast with last term’s ones, quite restrictive. They hardly left any room for creativity, as the instructions were very specific. I found last semester’s blog posts to be more interesting and less of a dread than the ones in this second semester. It might be just due to the actual contents of the course, but I thoroughly enjoyed expressing my thoughts and ideas in Lengua Inglesa III, whereas in Lengua Inglesa IV, I had to push myself to write. Last term, I was extremely up-to-date with the blog and I looked forward to doing each entry on a weekly basis. However, this time around, that was not the case at all.

Regarding some advice, I would suggest that the blog entries did not require browsing the Net in each one. Instead of commenting on already written information on websites, we could be asked to present things in a more dynamic way. In this way, the blog would become an enriching activity again. Perhaps stimulating creativity would be more beneficial to practice, and thus, improve, English. I understand that there is a need to encourage the usage of technology, but it got to be a little repetitive and tiring to search for articles all the time.

Lastly, I found the posts about essay writing to be quite repetitive and not very useful, since we learn sufficiently about it in the writing practice that is collected and graded.

Thank you for spending yet another term with me and my musings. I hope you enjoyed!

Loida