RC - Moving on from AS

Using Blogger last year was a whole new experience for me, as I had never used a program like it before. I feel that throughtout the course I did not use this program to its full potential as I spent most of the time adapting to the mechanics of blogging. However, now that I have had a full year of practice, my blogging techniques this year are hopefully going to improve.

-One aspect that I am keen on advancing is the aesthetic side of blogging, by aiming to make our blog as visually appealing as possible. This can be done in numerous ways:

• Adding more images, videos...


• Breaking up text by using bullet points, paragraphs...


• Breaking up text by using different fonts and font colours...


• Embedding links to other areas, websites...


• and many more...

-Another area that needs improving is communication on the blog within my group. Although last year Casey and I did communicate by posting comments on each other's blog, we could have done so a lot more, and in particular, making sure our comments are not just the bare minimum and do infact give in depth responses and ways to improve or help one another's work. It is vital that we use the blog's interactivity to our advantage, to enable continuous development of our work.

-We also need to make the most of Blogger being on the internet, and therefore benefit from the accessibility given to us. In particular, websites likes Youtube or Surveymonkey can be used as links on our blog, giving our blog more branches to go off on.

-We should also take more advantage of the fact that we can access our blog from home, and amend and improve our work there. This will give us a higher chance of developing our work in a more thorough manner, as we are just not restricted to the classroom.

-Also, now that we are working with new HD cameras the footage that we do post on our blog will be of a much higher standard and therefore give our blog a better quality appeal.

-One last point is that we need to make sure that we are always up to date with our work and to not be under the impression that we can always go back and amend things whenever we want. I learnt from last year that we do not have the time to leaves things to the last minute.