Week 8 Comments and Feedback

The comments and criticism I have received on my blog posts are very helpful. Up until this blog post I hadn't taken much time to look at the feedback I was getting but now I see that these comments are very helpful. I have gotten feedback on the way I write and how I can improve it as well as feedback on what I am doing well and how I should continue to do that in future work.

I feel like the feedback I am giving my classmates is constructive feedback as well. When I read amazing content, instead of saying "That was good!" I'll say "Here is what I loved about ___." I think that this provides constructive feedback in the way that it is specific. They know exactly what I think they are doing well so they can continue to do that in future projects.

I am also very interested in reading other people's blogs and storybook projects. For example, this past week i had the opportunity to read one of my classmates Cate's storybook. It was one of the most interesting things I had ever read and I loved being able to let her know directly what I liked about it. This class is great about promoting collaboration between classmates and through this open collaboration I have been able to improve my writing.

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