Overall, the use of new belonging technology has greatly benefitted me this year. Essentially, educational belonging sites are virtual pools of opinion and information which you may give or take from as you please. They are sites which allow you to express your thoughts and rationalizations towards any given subject matter. Posting personal feelings and interpretations on these sites is not only beneficial to yourself, but to others as well. Considering how your posts can be found on a world-wide medium (the internet), any individual person from any individual region of the globe may respond to your thinking via commenting. In my opinion, commenting is the most important aspect of online belonging. This vital interaction is what allows you to view similar topics from very different opinions and perspectives.
A specific example which demonstrates the beneficial use of belonging can be found on Lindsay’s page. Surprisingly, Lindsay and I wrote about very similar topics; however, the thoughts that were conveyed in each of our blogs were sometimes different. Reading Lindsay’s ideas allowed me to "think outside of the box" and broadened the horizons in terms of how I viewed certain aspects of the book. Lindsay’s character sketches (particularly those of Faber) gave me insight into how that character thinks and why he or she acts like she does. Her broad analysises about dystopian government’s dominion over its people revealed to me the true power and capabilities that our government possesses today. Hopefully, I will be privileged enough to use belonging technology in some of my future English classes.
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Matt: I'm glad the blogging process was beneficial to your learning. As for me, I have only recently begun to discover the potential such things have in the classroom. It is interesting to hear you and others say that the commenting is so important to the blogging process. I tend to agree. That seems to be what makes blogging so intriguing to me as a teacher, as a way to link students and their ideas, much like what we try to do in the classroom.
Thanks for your thoughtful responses and excellent work.
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