Views of my Views

Meta Blogging

Meta blogging – in my mind, I first thought the phrase meant my views about the ways I express my views - ok, maybe not, but that is the way I processed the meanings of the phrase;

In few words, If I am asked today, to state the top five, most important academic activities for this semester, without hesitation I’ll say; definitely the “Blogs”. You see, at first I was to some extent, annoyed with navigational aspects of Moodle and how to make sure that my blogs gets read by my peers. When I became familiar enough with the system, I regained my confidence to begin expressing myself through this medium called “Blog sphere”.

Generally speaking, I am a very opinionated person. I love to state my opinion about all issues, politics, social or religion and anything in between. I am very inquisitive at times.  In an oral conversation setting, I tend to say more and usually my thoughts expressed, are complemented by body language as well as others gestures. However, the challenge for me then, is manifested when I try to pen down those conversations for others to read.  I find myself fighting against the temptations, to replicate my oral conversation style to written ones. Meanwhile, I soon learned, through our numerous classroom discussions and other on-going class projects, like the “Literacy Inquiry” papers, that writing for others, must, in the end, be clear, concise and to the point. This made me take a rather different approach, one that is risky and perhaps vulnerability for me.  After all, I am writing for others not just for my personal journal.

Although there are, apparent, multiple styles of writing present in my various blogs, however, this is mainly due to the emotions that are evoked during my oral conversations on certain subjects. I am a strong believer in the phrase; “practice makes perfect”. I feel that by constantly blogging – identifying and correcting my mistakes, I’ll become a great writer one day. But for now, let’s Blog on…