In Diane Penrod’s book Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy she talks about four points that intersect pedagogy and digital technology in her second chapter called, “Blogging and New Literacies.” Out of the four, I agree with number one, “Blogging encourages fluency in writing.” She talks about having two distinct reasons why blogging encourages fluency in writing. One reason is that blogging is a pleasurable activity. I believe in this, at first when I started this blog I was very hesitant to the idea because all I thought was that blogs were personal diaries and I was not up for putting my life online for everyone to see. As I started exploring and learning more about them I realized it is much more than that. Instead of having to hand in writing assignments we were to create blogs to answer what we read in a chapter. It is very informal and less stressful. Which lead to Penrod’s second reason that students frequently spend more time on their blogging tasks than other school-based writing assignments. I agree, after creating my blog I now find myself spending more time on my blog then other tasks. I am coming around on my initial feelings on blogs because I am finding more ways to use it and it is helping me find a love for writing that I never had. So, I do agree with Diane Penrod when she says blogging encourages fluency in writing because it is happening with me in the assignments for this class.
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