Throughout the course of this semester, their were a series of blog post we were assigned to do every week that was due every Saturday at midnight (except with few exceptions because of Spring break). This was my first time doing blog posts for academic purposes. Before I was always used to having to do one to two page responses reflecting on some topic, doing a discussion board or Group Wiki on Blackboard that revolved around a lesson I had to learn for a class (very common in all my English classes). These blogs made me develop an online persona. While going through all my previous blog post in this course, I really enjoyed how they were all different from one another. The information was so much fun to explore and never once got boring at all because we were all challenged in different ways and every blog had a unique elements attached to all of. In other words, no blog felt like a task for me to do I felt so much enjoyment in seeing what other information is there to uncover next (it was refreshing!). While I am no means a great blogger by any means, I came to realize my writing style is more of a “critical blogger”. To put it another way, when I would read the prompts for the blogs I probably would spend maybe two and a half hours carefully analyzing and studying the information before I began my blog. I would explore all the options available to me and made sure I did not miss anything. I really enjoyed how the blogs gave me a platform to share my voice with others and share a bit of my personality. In other words, I did not feel restrained writing them whereas if I was writing a response or blackboard post I would of had to adhere to a certain set of rules or procedures and it would be less interactive. The blogs gave us the incentive to communicate with one another more freely while still being professional. My strongest post has to be Blog #10 (What is Digital Literature) because it required me to think outside the box. We all know Digital Literature is becoming more popular today then ever before but with this blog we told at from other perspectives which is something I never did before. There was also a loss and gain factor that was attributed the blog. In other words, you had to examine the traditional methods along with the new methods which is why i like it so much. It was a fun challenge. Additionally, I really enjoyed the twitter fiction portion those stories were such fun to read and had some great suspense. My weakest post has to be Blog #3 (Visual Rhetoric) because I had to read the book Graphs Maps and Trees by Franco Moretti. While the book was not too difficult to understand, the interpretation of the graphs made me confused (maybe because there was no color) and I had to use some statistical math knowledge I forgot. Although, it did provide some insight on the publications and genres that were popular which I appreciated but nonetheless the graphs were quite difficult. I am more into reading words on paper as opposed to reading graphs (not a fan of Math). I actually enjoyed writing the blogs every week because it was always something new to look forward to. We examined so many fun projects and sites which is why I enjoyed it. It was like we creating a small world with all the knowledge we were gathering. However, the only hard thing about the blogs was going through everybody blog and writing a comment because I had to try and understand from their point of view because the way I read something can be different compared to somebody else. Thank you to all my fellow peers and Professor Silva for giving me the opportunity to share my own voice and insight on where I stand on this field of Digital Humanities ! 🙂