Wha’ppen?

Personally, I think the examples of the narratives I found in such blogs as “Is This SSR 2.0?” and “Spies Like Us” were a bit hard to get through.  I did not find these blogger reflections to be as enlightening or informative as I would have wished.  It seemed a good number of blogs (of all the ones I read through for “23 Things”) relied on more of a person-to-person breezy, conversational nature, and though I felt as if I really wanted to connect, I just found that type of blog post harder to wrap my brain around.  It’s not that I disagreed with their observations or where they were coming from philosophically.  It’s just that reading their posts as a “cold call” without much background as to their blogs history, I just didn’t connect.  I was completely overwhelmed (visually) by  “Spies Like Us”.  I had to pore over the site two or three times to take it all in.  Granted, everything posted or added to the site was useful and interesting, and I guess that viewing it the first it just came across as too much.

More to my taste (and vision of the power of blogs) would be “Questions for One of Our Favorite Authors: Grace Lin”, “5th Grade“, and “Second Graders Write About Our Missing Ducks“.  With these three blogs, I am seeing the communicative and collaborative components of Web 2.0.  Students of all age levels and abilities have been given a voice, and can now perhaps connect to their educations in a more personal and meaningful way.