My Evaluation of My Blog

To find out what the questions are that I am answering in this post please go to LJA Design Tech Blog

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          My school blog is finished (well almost finished).  Now is the time to evaluate my blog.

          I feel that my blog is pretty much finished, save a few loose ends that I need to tie up.  For the most part, the blog is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!! (Well, handsome anyways).  I am most proud of the fact that a lot of my blog was created using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) coding.  Being able to use CSS really helps a lot (e.x. when you need to go in between the lines and do stuff that you normally wouldn't be able to do without the code. But, the best thing, is the fact that I will be able to edit it for all time!

          Once I graduate though, I will no longer have my school email, but don't worry, I also run this blog from my email that I use for blogging, so it will still be here so that I can have my own record for what I did in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, and all the way through high school. Even though this can be found in one of my other posts, here it is for quick reference, my Blog Specifications: 

'In order for a blog to be successful, it needs to follow the three The's:

One: The blog needs to be attractive.  It needs to consistently follow it's color scheme (e.g. don't use red if your blog is about world peace, seriously please).

Two: The person that keeps the blog running needs to keep the blog updated at all times (e.g. at least once a day).  If they don't keep the blog running it's going to become, what I like to call, a ghost blog.

"What are Ghost Town blogs?
 You know — low visit rates; only 1 or 2 comments on posts — or worse — NO COMMENTS at all.
Even if the blog owner spends hours writing amazing content.
 Still … NOTHING! Echo … echo … echo … 
Are you blogging consistently or are you a hit and run poster?
 How long does it take to respond to those that do comment on your blog?
 Do you visit and comment on your commentors’ blogs in return?
And how sharable is your blog, really?
I know! That’s a LOT of questions. But they are important to answer. Ghost town status is not what you want, specially if you have a blog related to your business."

Three: The blog needs to be easy to navigate.  Some helpful things that keep the blog easy to navigate are, search bars, blog archives, links, etc.  If you have search bars on your blog, the readers of your blog are able to type in a few keywords so can sift through all of your blog posts and find the one post that they are looking for.  Putting label on your blog post are really helpful also.'

(This one I just added) Four: The blog needs to be awesome!

          My blog meets the above stated design specifications because, one: I try to keep it updated everyday (if not everyday or every-other-day, at least once a week), two: This blog is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(That's my awesome powers of persuasion telling you that this blog is seriously awesome!)  Although my blog meets most of these standards, I think that my blog still needs a few more widgets to be at it's best.
          The way that I could use my blog to benefit the community (positively) is to keep my blog up-to-date.  Say there was an earthquake in Hawaii, and that earthquake caused a tsunami that was on a crash course with Japan, by keeping it up to date, I could write a post warning the people in Japan of the forthcoming tsunami, effectively saving many lives.
          I feel, that in this unit, I was very, very, effective because when I was creating my blog, I had enough knowledge of blogging to help other people if they had any questions or problems about blogging that they needed answered.
          The IB Learner Profile that I feel I exhibited the best was balanced, in helping others finish their blogs, all the while also managing to get my blog [pretty much] finished.
          The final, most important question, the Unit Question, the-question-that-must-not-be-named, whatever you want to call it: "How can sharing our thought and ideas online (in a safe and responsible manner) have a positive effect on our community and ourselves?" Sharing our ideas and thoughts online can have a positive effect on the community because the blog can be used to alert people of currents problems, situations, natural disaters, man-made disasters. But blogs don't only have to be used to alert people of bad things that are happening, they can also be used to tell people stuff about yourself (just take my very own The Way I Learn Best blog for example), or you could use a blog to alert people about different hobbies within your community (e.x. a new yoga club, or paddling updates, volleyball clubs, etc.).
         So, all in all, other than the few minor dents and scratches, my blog is pretty much the best blog I could ever want!!!