Week 8 Comments and Feedback

comments I have recieved have been kind and often helpful. I like reading what other students have felt about my stories. I also love to see people responding to my introduction and enjoying the pictures of my dogs. Many student have left very helpful feedback that encourages me to expand on my stories.

Sometimes I feel my feedback is useless. I often tell students how I enjoyed their stories and what I had hoped to see more of. Sometimes it’s hard to critically analyze ofher students work and to point them in a direction they may be respondsnt to.

I really enjoy reading other blogs, specifically introductions. I have seen some cool storybooks and some good stories in other student’s portfolios that encourage me to try harder in this course, I just often don’t have the time to fine tune and polish all of my posts. I do think every blog has a personality, just as mine reflects the simplicity I like in my life.

I think I should actually enact some of the advice I’ve been give on my portfolio stories, it’s helpful to see where people wanted to see the story grow, so maybe focusing on that in the future on top of revisions would be great. I like both my comment wall and my introduction, so I will leave them as they are!

(cheezburger)

I love i haz cheeseburger cats, they were such a big part of my young meme childhood.
This photo in particular I chose because it’s a great example of looking past the bad times into the bright future ahead of you. In this case, I see a bright future for my blog as I steadily improve it.

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Indian Epics

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