Blog Evaluation Activity

1. What is the name of the blog you reviewed? Please include an ACTIVE link to the blog here.

• The blog I am evaluating is titled, "Miss Brown's Educational Blog," by Abigail Brown. Here's the link: Miss Brown's Educational Blog

2. Is the style of the writing in the blog you reviewed suited to the blogger’s intended audience? In other words, is the writing professional enough for a teaching blog? 

• Miss Brown's Educational Blog offers a great deal of information for the intended audience. Miss Brown's "Welcome to my blog" post helped her audience get to know her personality, and communicate to them her likes and hobbies. It also included her desire to help other students out by being a Special Education teacher. The descriptions to her posts gave detailed descriptions of how she was able to manage the programs or the applications that was required for the class . Her posts were informative and written in a professional manner. In addition, Miss Brown includes a inviting tone to her writing, which makes it easy and fun to read. 

3. Are the colors/fonts appropriate? Are there things that are distracting about the blog that need to be changed (ie. Pictures/images too large or too small, hard-to-read font, distracting backgrounds, etc). Are Vokis in the right place (they should be only on the sidebar). 

• The blog's colors are quite simple and basic. The color palette that she chose were mostly neutral, which helped pictures and videos pop out in the blog. All in all, the blog looked clean and crisp, nothing that would distract the audience when they read the posts. Miss Brown's Voki placement was perfect where it should be. One thing that I would suggest is to somehow enlarge the text size of the posts and headings. This might make it easier for the audience to read the posts. 

4. Is the spacing and layout easy to navigate? Are there “repeats” of posts? Does the flow and direction of the blog make sense? 

• The spacing and layout is appropriate for the audience. It is fairly easy to navigate through blog, as the flow and direction makes sense. More importantly, Miss Brown did not have any repeats of posts in the blog. 

5. Are correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar used? 

• Most of the posts were proof-read, where spelling, punctuation, and grammar were appropriately used. This is important to build credibility from the reader, and to ensure professionalism. 

6. What is your overall impression of the blog? (Include any suggestions you may have for improvement. If you have any questions or additional comments, please include them here).

• Overall, I found the blog interesting and fun at the same time. Although we completed the same assignments, I feel that I have learned new things from this blog. It is also wonderful to get to know someone in this online class, from reading their "Welcome to my blog" post, and their Prezi presentation. I love learning new things from new people. In terms of suggestions, I would add some color to the blog that would make the posts pop out more. However, I think that Miss Brown did a wonderful job blogging.