Hello everybody, this will be my last blog entry that is required for school. I will most likely not keep blogging although it was an interesting way of sharing information aand writing. I would just like to say thank you to everyone who read my blog and here is a self-reflection of blogging:
1. In your opinion, what was the purpose of this blogging activity? (Why did I choose to do blogging instead of more traditional writing activities?)
We teenagers know a lot, whether from school or from our own research and experiences, sometimes more than people think. Sometimes more than even we think. This blogging technique is a unique approach to getting us to share our information with other people besides just our teachers. WIth blogs we are able to write information about anytopic we want, we get alot more freedom in our writing because our audience that we write to is not just one person but can be anyone in the world. As well as that people who are more creative get to play around with the looks of the site and add pictures and videos to personalize their blog. This way I think that writing becomes easier to do and a more fun. And this is why i think that our teacher choose blogging instead of handwriting.
2. What have you accomplished during your blogging?
Blogging is a relatively new concept to me, even if I started last year. During this year as a blogger I have acheived a lot of different things. From all my blogging I have learnt alot of new ways of using my computer and the internet. I have never been much of a technology person but I feel pretty confident with wikis, blogs, and any other type of internet writing sites. I can now link specific sites to words, something i could never do before. I now understand a bit more and can now use at my disposale the different types of sentences, I have never been to clear about them because they are very complicated and english grammer may not be my best or favorite class (I did spend my first five years of school in a french only school) but after this year I have a fairly clear idea in my head. Most of my other acheivments have been small things that i might not have even noticed yet, for i am sure that I acheived a lot more but a lot of it has just become so natural that i cant even notice them.
3. What key concepts have you learned while blogging? (This can be about writing, research or technology etc.)
While making my blogs I have found information and discovered things about writing all over the internet. Before writing any of my posts I would all ways research them first, I would use multiple sites to all ways check if the onformation i found was valid. In some cases i discovered that the things I found were wrong and could have been very disastrous if I had posted them. While researching I found out a lot of information for myself about rock climbing, from different types of camming devices to different forms of rock climbing. This to me was my favorite part; I really like researching topics that I like. While writing, as I said in the prior paragraph, I learnt about all the different forms of sentences such as the compound and complex. I am still a bit unclear about them but ill get it someday. I also learnt how to write to an audience that consists of many different people from around the world. This helped me in writing because it taught me how to appropriately write to different age groups and races withought offending or insulting people by accident. My writing can now be classified as worldwide.
4. Based on the skills you learned while blogging, how will this benefit you in the future? This maybe inside or outside of school.
I think that this blog will help me in the future, even if it is not too apparent. First of all, any form of writing or activities that work your brain can only be positive for your mental health. So these posts and writing will help me grow mentally and they will give me clearer ideas on how to write to a larger and varied age audience. In turn this will help me because I can communicate efficiently with other races and cultures withought offending them by accident, and if I ever move around the world this will be a valuable skill. If I continue blogging I may also be able to use my blog to show people my work and let them understand a bit more about me. I could also use it at a job interview to give them an understanding of my talents and skills. Lastly if I ever need to use computers when I’m older I will have already learnt a lot of skills to using them.
Well this may be the end, thank you everyone goodbye and climb on!
As you can see, when the rope go is in it circles around the carabiner then comes back out. This way friction mitigates a lot of the weight of the climber and you can hold heavier weights with ease. While your climber ascends the wall you use your left arm (or whichever arm you are more comfortable with) to pull the rope down and take away the slack. Your right hand then pulls the rope upwards and brings it back down to a resting position. When your right hand gets low enough bring your left hand down and grab the bottom rope and then bring your right hand up near the mouth of the belaying device. Not to close or you can get your hand caught if your climber falls. In this way you will always have a hand on the bottom rope to catch a falling climber. If and when your climber falls you need to act quickly. Make sure your hand on the bottom rope is brought down and held tightly also bring your other hand down to hold the rope. This way you can get as much friction on the rope and get a good grip. Using both hands to hold the bottom rope is also a good way to hold a climber in a resting position. If he or she is struggling on the wall or sitting on the rope then you can put your arms like this so you don’t waste energy. But keep a good eye on your climber in case they suddenly jump or do a fast move.
