Week 2 Blog Reviews

Kim Kida;

I was unable to critique due to the posts not being completed.

Krista Sigala;
I really enjoyed her introduction paragraph in her "Impressions" blog. It was short, has a thesis statment that would grab the readers attention, and by the end of the paragraph, I had an idea of the points she was going to be discussing. In her third paragraph, she stated that first impressions in an online class can be misrespresentative of who you really are because they can be controlled; I agree with her. Every statement she had made was backed up with facts and her opinions. She covered bothed sides of the argument, the traditional and online pros and cons, and at the end stated her conclusion. Our condluding paragraphs were very similar in that we both have the opinion that both the traditional and online classroom settings have advantages and disadvantages but it really comes down to the individual. Although in this blog, she didnt borrow any ideas from the book, it was really well written.
Again, her introduction paragraph in the blog grabbed my attention. I liked that she began with asking a question. In her third paragraph, she backed up her statement with not only a good example from Beedles, but a sociologist Alfie Kohn who studied the relationship of religion and behavior. This example was relevant to the purpose of the blog and was used in a proper way to have a background for her opinion. For the most part, I saw we share the same opinions of each topic. Overall, both blog posts were well written, interesting, and I enjoyed reading both.


Lauren Petrovich;
The introduction paragraph of the "Expressing ourselves through writing" blog jumped right into her opinion of the pros and cons of online versus traditional class settings. She used a number of ideas from Goffman to support her opinions, and each were properly used with MLA in text citations. I also agree with her when she says that she does feel like we can get to know one another through an online class, as long as we all remain truthful. She stated that she felt like she can express herself better in writing than she would face to face with someone, and I can see how that would be true. After reading her blog posts', I felt like they each gave off a sense of her personality.
From her introduction paragraph of "Who is God? and can we be good without Him?", right away she let the reader know that in her opinion, the answer an individual would have, would depend on who God was to them or if they believed. Although I do share the same belief in God, and I feel like I use God as a foundation for the goodness in my life, just as she does, we had different opinions on whether one can be good without him. I really did enjoy the fact that she shared a little of her background and that she was raised in a Christian home, all of her opinions really shined in both of her blogs and as I said before, gave me a feel for her personality. Overall, I enjoyed both blogs!