Natalie and I collaborated together for this new blog, Victorian Era Ideas. We both helped create each post and took turns between editing and researching. However, the four best posts that really stand out as some of our best work are the posts, Class Themes: Humanities 303, Ruined…A Different Perspective, The Kiss, and Symbolism, A New Way of Thinking. For the Class Themes: Humanities 303 post, we focused on the main themes that were prevalent in the class at that time and gave a little background on why it was a theme along with some context. For Ruined…A Different Perspective, the focus was on “The Ruined Maid” and a comparison of today’s ruined woman versus ancient ruin. The goal was to provide context for each in relation to “The Ruined Maid” text. In the post, The Kiss, we focused entirely on Auguste Rodin’s work and particularly his sculpture The Kiss. With Symbolism, A New Way of Thinking, we wanted to develop a better understanding of Arthur Symons and the reasons behind some of his works, as he was prevalent throughout class in the time period that we were currently studying then.
While these posts reflect our best work, we, however, did experience a few shortcomings in relation to our blog. We did very much enjoy working together to collaborate on the blog and being able to have the chance to not have to rely on others. This worked out well for us as we like to get things done in a timely manner and often times before it is due, and working together really allowed us to do that. However, one big shortcoming was that we did not actually end up doing very much in regards to actually writing well detailed blogs. We both feel as if we should have probably written a few more, like I am sure all members of the class believe and you as well Dr. Hunter. So aside from wanting to have spent more time on creating more posts, we did focus highly on the posts that we wrote and believe them to reflect some of our best work.
Working with this blog was quite different from our first term blog. The first term blog involved a lot more teamwork and collaboration as compared to that of the second term blog. While this is also something that we wanted to focus less time on for the second term, the first term blog opened up our eyes to other possible ideas and we found it quite helpful with coming up with new ideas and learning new things. However, the second term blog is of a much higher quality and truly reflects much better work. Our posts are detailed, and yet, not too long. They provide background, and outside resources and seem to be a lot more interesting, at least to us, as they do include a wider range of knowledge and information.
We hope you find our blog as exciting and fun to read as we did in writing them!
Natalie and Heather
