Week 8 Comments and Feedback

Feedback In

While I can read my stories and see plot holes or other thematic issues, I am really bad at catching things like grammar. So, the feedback that I have found the most helpful from students would be that pertaining to my grammar and other technical parts of my writing.

Feedback Out

I would like to think that my feedback is of at least decent quality. I use the "WWW" feedback strategy for most of my feedback and I think it has been working well. I like that gives me an outline to start with. It is even easy to remember so I don't have to pull up another window to work on feedback.

Blog Comments

I have enjoyed the blog comments, and I think that my blog is a decent place to learn about me. I think the one thing about the blog comments I would change is that it is mostly randomized. Thinking about it in terms of a physical classroom, people generally talk to the people sitting around them most often and other classmates less. While this doesn't let you get to know as many people, it let's you get to know a few people well. For me, I prefer quality over quantity, so being able to choose which blogs to comment on each time would be more my speed. Luckily, I do blog comments for extra credit in which case I do get to choose, and that has been really great.

Looking Forward

I would love to change up my introduction to include a little more biographical detail rather than just information on my summer. To make feedback more helpful to myself, I think for the most part just reading comments from the week before, at the beginning of my writing process could be helpful.

Info-graphic

(What Great Listeners Actually Do Tammay Vora)

I chose this info-graphic because, as someone that loves to talk, sometimes listening istn't my strong suit. I have been working on being a better and more compassionate listener recently so when I saw this graphic I thought it was fitting. While listening is an important part of relationship, and why I am trying to improve, listening is also important to feedback. If you can't understand and process what someone is saying in response to your work or your feedback, there isn't much point to the interaction. Understanding one another starts with listening, so doing it well is important.

Comments

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Hi! For my first reading this week I read Aesop's Fables. I have always thought these were fun stories and enjoyed some of the lessons they teach. One in particular that I read was about listening to one's parents which I think is really important, because that is how we learn to be adult and keep ourselves safe. However, this story was told from the perspective of two lions, a father and son. The father tells the son when he is young not to go picking a fight with humans because he will lose. Later when the little lion is older, he disregards what his father taught him, and goes looking for a man to grapple with. When he finds the man, he is tricked into putting his paw in a trap and to get free he loses his claws. While this is a great lesson, I thought it was kind of backwards. If anything I think that humans would be wise to avoid picking a fight with lions. So if I were to rewrite it I would put the characters in the opposite position. I would have a father tell his ch...

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