Blooming

Writing about poetry and writing poetry are very different processes.  Writing about poetry requires interpretive skills to find meaning in the words that you are reading, while writing poetry requires you to make meaning through words.  Writing about poetry at its core is about understanding, then explaining the conclusions you came up with based on the words in the poem itself.  Writing poetry is all about creation through form and careful choice of words, which allow others to undergo the process of understanding, interpreting, and writing about poetry for your work. Writing about poetry helped me understand word usage and form on a much deeper level since I was able to deeply analyze an already successful and beloved work.  Being able to pay attention to how the poem was written and how complex ideas were expressed in so little words helped me practice finding the most important and key details to keep in the poem and what details weren't as important.  Having written my own po

Hello, my name is Homura, but I also go by Lilly if that's a little too difficult, and my pronouns are she/her.  The topic of this blog is the usage of technology in classrooms.  Technology and media have always been incorporated in teaching since I was in Middle School.  Educational videos, documentaries, and sites were all effective ways in my learning as a kid.  The amount of technology used only increased as I started attending College, which shows a level of importance, or maybe even effectiveness, in teaching using technology. I believe that technology can be a strong ally in teaching.  For example,  the internet has so many useful resources that can be provided or simply accessed by students that can aid or even help them expand on what they're learning.  Like described above, there were a lot of ways the internet was incorporated in the traditional classroom learning environment that I feel was effective.  In Science classes for example, videos of lab tutorials were sho