These last two weeks have been going great! I FINALLY think I am getting a hang of blogging. It still isn't something I look foreward to do, but I also am not dreading it anymore. Yay!!! I think part of the reason things are getting easier for me is because i finally talked to Dr. V. and had her go over some of the blogging lingo that I still didn't understand, and she explained google reader to me, so that made things a lot less complicated and helped me save some time. Another reason why I think I am handling blogging better these last two weeks is becuase we are mainly doing posts now. The first two weeks were focussed on setting up our blogs, and that was WAY too much for me. So these last two weeks have been much easier.
These last two weeks we read an article on the use of documentaries on environmental issues. This article made me veiw documentaries in a different way. I still believe that they are important for the general public to learn about things that they don't have easy access to, but, I also now realize that what I am seeing isn't exactly what things may look like.
This last week we have been watching "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. This documentary is all about the effects of global warming. This film really openned my eyes. I had no idea how bad global warming can get, and had no idea how bad it has gotten. This film really put things into perspective, and I really am going to take this issues much more seriously from here on out.
Finally, this week we had our first Eye Opener assignment due. We were suppost to learn about ecological footprints and take three environmental quizzes and talk about our result. By the end of this assignment, we all knew what our ecological footprint was, and how many earths it would take for the world to live the way that we lived. This assignment was really interesting, but I was very let down and dissappointed with my results. I learned that I really am not living as "green" as I thought I was. This was really great for me to learn though, becuase now I can start to try different things that will help make my ecological foootprint smaller.
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Share and Voice 12: Water Bottles!
15 years ago
It's great you're finally getting the hang of blogging now.It didn't come that easily for me either.
ReplyDeleteI never really thought abotu how bad global warming has gotten either, always thought of what it's going to do in the future insteand. Forgetting that what we do now, is either going to make it worse or better.
Great pst overall, I like how colorfull it is.
Hope you'd learn a lot more in weeks to come!
I agree with you in what you said about how crazy it is that global warming has gotten to the place it has. It makes me sad, and I am now more aware of my surroundings, and it makes me appreciate how beautiful everything is in nature...sad to think of what my kids will be taught someday. Great post!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you've pretty much got the hang of things, it was all a little overwhelming for me too. The last couple weeks gave us a chance to learn a lot of useful things with the film and our eye opener. I was dissapointed with my ecological footprint too, but more of a reason to make it smaller! Great post!
ReplyDeleteHey Sarah! I think everyone's starting to get use to this blogging system which is awesome because I like these assignment more than paper assignments. Good to see things are getting easier for you. By the way I missed your question poll....Yes! I do recycle!
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