Pictured from Left to Right: Emma, Emily, Kirsi, Jeff, Tom, Mackenzie, (not picture, John)The blog has been a way to take these really scary theoretical concepts and reframe them in our own language, perhaps supplementing with our own experiences as TAs. Remember back to Melissa’s first post on ecocomp? Not only was her post a bajillion times more interesting to read than the original article because she used the words of “real people” but she also pointed out key ideas, like the distinction between ecocomp and ecocrit and when and where they were getting lumped together. I see the value of the blog as a tool to help connect the theoretical aspects of the WRIT540 curriculum with the practical learning we are doing in WRIT101 and begin to vocalize them.
My involvement in the blog has been has more focused on my teaching experiences as they relate to the readings than my ideas on the readings themselves, for better or worse. I have a difficult time keeping things in the realm of theory and usually I have many thoughts about one or two things, rather than a few thoughts about many things. This can be good, but I also think it’s the obligation of the poster to, in some way, speak to the reading as a whole rather than break it into parts and point to only one.
