Portfolio 1

Many different types of writing and technologies were presented in this discourse community. The most popular use of technology in our discourse community was blogging. A blog is a way for multiple people to post about whatever they want in whatever fashion they so desire. The best part about blogging is that the blogger can be completely anonymous! Within our discourse community groups of 4 or 5 people were assigned to a certain blog. Each week a different group would have to blog about an article that was chosen by the instructor of our community. The group members would come together and read this article and then later blog about what they had learned, and as a full pledged member of the community each member that was not part of the blogging group had to leave their own comment about what they read from the blogging groups blog. The function of the blog was to introduce a different style of writing that could be viewed by whomever, and it truly was a different style of writing. The topics we had to blog about were all related to literacy but the approach to writing the blog was established by a group. However the only constraint was that the blog had to have some sort of uniform flow to the way the text was presented. Blogging definitely opened up a whole new world for our discourse community. I believe it is one of the most effective methods for collaborative writing. The reason I say this is because members of a group can come together and put all thoughts onto paper and then transfer those thoughts onto a blog. I further believe that the best aspect of blogging is the simple fact no one is wrong. Every opinion is valued and taken accounted for in a group blog.