Weekly Review: Jumping into the World of Blogging

I want to begin this post by saying that this is by far the most different class that I have ever taken, in a good way. I am really enjoying this class, because I get so bored with the typical structure of online courses: read this, take this quiz, post in the discussion board, here's your final. I never in a million years thought that I would create a blog, especially in a class about California Literature, but I must say that the experience I've had with this blog so far, seeing how easy it is to operate, makes me want to make a blog of my own outside this class and begin writing about other things because I like it so much.

Apart from enjoying the blogging aspect of this class, I also like the wide variety of assignments that we have each week. One of my favorites this week was the surprisingly the wikipedia trail, and I say surprisingly because the first time I looked at the assignment I thought it would be kind of lame, but I wanted to get the extra credit. Upon actually doing the assignment, however, I really enjoyed it because it shocked me how one simple search on wikipedia and accessing three other links from that could lead to so much more interesting information. I really enjoyed learning about the history of the area that I have grown up in.

I honestly kind of struggled with the Native American style of reading we did this week, but nonetheless I found it interesting and was actually able to decipher some of text and learn some things from it.

I am really enjoying this class so far, and I look forward to the rest of this semester!