- An evaluation of your fellow students’ blogs. Explain the components and elements required to develop and design an effective and visually appealing blog. Students will use the feedback they receive from each other to improve their own Blogs.
- Cite each of the blog websites that you evaluated in Week Four Discussion One
- Explain how you will incorporate this knowledge into your own blog.
I reviewed Chris’s and Robert’s blogs. No surprise there, since they
are the only other people in the class aside from myself. One of the week four discussion
posts was very similar to this assignment, and I have already provided feedback
to both Chris and Robert on their respective blogs. The following is a
summarization of this feedback.
Chris’s blog: http://perpetualparents.blogspot.com/
Her title is unequivocally
descriptive. At first glance I thought the title to be a bit too long, but it
does narrow her focus to a very specific part of the population while still
being attractive to anyone’s compassion. Her profile and the pictures Chris has
posted make it easy for the reader to “get to know her” better and lend credibility
to her posts. Her postings have been limited, so it is not clear where she will
take the blog, but she has made a great start and it makes me want to see more.
The fact that she chose the same blog template as I did has, of course,
nothing to do with my liking her post a lot, but it does show that she has very
good taste! <smile>
Chris might want to
remove any cover pages from her assignments in order to better utilize her
space. What looks good in MS Word does not necessarily translate well onto a
blog. Also, her side panel could be a bit more developed. A little bit of
humor, or something up-to-date might be interesting to the reader.
Robert’s blog: http://robcomstudies.blogspot.com/
In my opinion, Robert
is a gifted writer. His writing is eloquent and easy to read. It feels very
expansive yet focused at the same time. His Media Technologies assignment not only read well but was visually
appealing. He used icons to add interest and color to a rather lengthy piece of
writing. As I stated already on his blog, I would have liked to see some more
pictures; however, that is my preference and not a negative criticism toward
him or his blog. We are now in the fourth week of this course and,
unfortunately, I still do not have any real idea who Robert is. There is no
profile and, other than the brief introduction paragraph and the Media Technologies assignment, nothing
that would give me any hint as to where Robert is planning to take his blog. At
this point, I would guess that he created the blog only for this class and he
will not continue with it after graduation.
Personally, I find that very unfortunate, because his writing is
exquisite.
Overall, I feel
utterly non-qualified to give any type of criticism to anyone’s blog. After
all, this is the first time I have ever written one and all I know about a blog
is, what I have learned in this class. The articles we read for this class talk
about blog layout, use of color, making peace with white space, and that being
brief is not a bad thing. None of that makes me an expert. My plan is to
continue with my blog as I came to find that writing it turned out to be cathartic
for me. My guess is that, as with anything else in life, it is the practice
that will make my blog – no, not perfect – but at least interesting enough for
my family and friends to spend some time there.
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