Jamie's Book Club Reflection

Over the past 6 weeks we have been intrusted with the task of creating an online blog.
It required strong self discipline, something that a few of us had some problems with .

We encountered many problems along the way, some of them more time consuming than others ;

• the fact that it took us a while to actually discover this site was annoying especially when we wasted time experimenting with others - i now have many saved attempts of Microsoft Frontpage, my father will be very ashamed,
• the fact that me and holly had a different blog to Stace, Jodi, tiffany and renae. It meant that we had to copy and paste every post onto theirs, making it so that me and holly were very much behind everyone else ( holly still reamins so).
• We were never sure what exactly we had to discuss and that left us all wandering aimlessly ( figuritivly speaking).

However, gripes aside, this assingment was a very interesting venture, and, for those of us who were dedicated, we did raise some very good issues.

I think the biggest problem with our group was that we never actually discussed anything, we were very good at creating new posts and not so good at replying to others. I think that perhaps we could of, as a group, had got together more and divided up the task making sure that everyone cut in the same amount of effort and that others didnt get the credit that actually belongs to the others.

From an education point we probbaly learn more from a teacher directed task but with this student directed course i learnt more about myslef and discovered issues in the book that i hadn't realized were there before.I certainly appreciated what i had learnt more than if a teacher had stood at the front of a classroom focing his/her views and opinions down our throats.


I think that in eastern cultures alot of students lack self discipline, and, because of this will always rely on a teacher figure; whether that means they will stillexist in classrooms and schools or we regress to being a completly technology dependant society and are taught through online forums!


I, as a person, have always had strong opinions and take pleasure in sharing them. I understand that this is the main aim of a book group. I probably wouldn't be in one now, seeing as it is hard ( and nearly impossible) to have inteligent discussions with teenagers today, with out them refering to some ridicoulous peice of popular culture or something else ludricrously boganish ( i consider myself highly cultured - obnoxious! yes, i know but i do generally see it that way).
If the oppurtunity does arise when im older to join a book club then i will definately accept!
I think that by listening to others views and combiing them with your own you can sometimes see the novel on a whole new level!