What were your first impressions of this blog? This blog has a lot of color. Also, each individual blog has a good length of writing.
What captured your attention? The blog titles captured my attention the most. I can tell she likes music and people visit her blog because of her widgets.
What distracted you on the blog? The writing color was the same as the background color so it was hard to read.
What suggestions can you give me to improve my blog? Make the fonts of the titles larger so they stick out from the writing.

Auditing my blog

• How many posts did you write? 37
  
• How many were school based or your own interests? 18
  
• How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students? 2
  
• Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened? 'Blogs you should consider adding to your blog roll' and 'Biggest Hurdle'. I didn't comment back to keep the comments going.
  
• Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why? 'What's on my mind', because I got to vent a little about what was on my mind.
  
• Did you change blog themes at all and why? No, because I like the theme I have. My favorite color is blue, so I chose the one I have. No one has complained about the way it looks. I actually had one person say they liked the way it looked.
  
• How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough? I have 4 widget in my blog. I think it's just the right amount because not enough would make my blog boring, but too many would make it look crowded.

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Checking Facebook or Twitter?

How often do you check twitter and facebook or take a phone message? I always try to check my Facebook every night, but with sports and homework it's pretty hard. I don't have a Twitter so I never check it! I am constantly texting; morning, day and night. I can;t stand not having my phone. I would die without it.

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Categories

I chose the categories: me, school, blogs, and blogging challenge because that's mainly what I write about.


'School' is all the things that my teacher doesn't title blog to it.


'Blogs' are all the things my teacher has us blog about that are titled 'Blog .....'.


'Me' is obviously about me.


'Blogging challenge' is obveously about the blogging challenges we have to do.





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Blogs you should consider adding to your blog roll

I think this blog is a good blog for students and classes to add to their blog roll because it's popular, organized, and a variety of things to look at and read.

This blog is very interesting. He reads other people's blogs and then blogs about them.

This person's blog has a LOT to read and a variety of things to read. It is organized and it even has a game for you to play!

This girls blog is a good blog for people to add to their blog roll because she is a little older and could help you with things about college or sports. It has a lot of reading, but you might learn a thing or two.

This blog has all the challenges labled in her titles and is well organized. The colors don't hurt your eyes when you read the blogs. She also has an ipod playing a song in the background.


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Creative Commons License

Do you think you should have a creative commons license for your blog? Why or why not? Yes, because what I do is mine and I don't want others using what I wrote in my own words and using them for themselves and saying they wrote it and came up with it.
Is your audience mainly students in your class and/or the blogging challenge or have you had readers that are teachers and/or visitors you don’t know? Yes and yes.

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Animal Farm

In our reading class we are reading the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. We had to find a youtube video that represents it. In the book, the animals plan a rebellion to take over the farm. They do but come across some issues.

My Blog

Write a post about why students and classes should visit your blog.
Why is your blog going to be interesting? There are post about different things and links to check out some of the things I posted.
What will you be posting about? The challenges and whatever my teacher wants us to write about.


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Earth Hour

Write a post about activities your family could do while the lights are out for that hour.

• take a nap
• talk
• go for a walk
• clean

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Biggest Hurdles

What's the biggest hurdle you encounter with learning at school?

Friends always want to talk to you.

What do you enjoy learning about?

New things.

If you could learn anything you wanted to right now, what would it be? Include in your response a clickable website link to that topic.

Where to go to be a able to swim with dolphin.

What do you want to do when you get out of high school?

Go to college.

Where do you see yourself 5 years from now? Include in your response a clickable link to either a location or occupation that relates to your response.
California beach volleyball.

When to Use Real Photos of Yourself

When do you think it is appropriate for students to use real photos of themselves on their blogs and why? I think that students can use real photos of themselves on their blogs if the photo has more people than just them in it. That way someone who doesn't know you can't tell which person you are.

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Writing, writing, and more writing

Now that you're writing the past 2 months, how do you think you've grown as a writer? I think I have grown by being able to express myself through my witing.
What difficulties do you face? Writing about something I'm not familiar with or don't like. Having a certain page/word number.
What do you think of your writing? I think my writing is good. I'm no expert, but when it comes to something I'm interested in, I do just fine.
What is something you're good at with writing? Writing stories and things about me.
What's something you struggle with? Explain. Writing things that don't interest me, like things other than basketball, volleyball, softball, me, and certain animals, because if I write about a something I'm familiar with, it won't take me as long to write it.

1. What is it called? Wordle
2. Include a photo of their logo. above
3. Is it totally free? yes
4. What does it do? Takes words or sentences you type and scrambles them all up and forms a collage out of them. The more frequent you use a word, the bigger it is from the rest of the words.
5. How could you use it for school to show you understanding? To express your mind about something your class has read, watched, or something your teacher wants you to write about.
6. Overall, does it seem useful? yes

If you could communicate with any country what country would that be?
If I could communicate with any country, I would chose New South Wales, Australia.
Why did you pick that country?
I picked New South Wales, Australia, because I met a girl who is 5 years older than me at a girl scout camp a few years ago that lives in New South Wales, Australia.
What do you already know about that country?
I know that there are kangaroo's there.
What would you ask them?
How do you like living there? Have you ever traveled to the US?


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What's on my mind

There are a lot of things going through my mind right now, but one particular thing is DRAMA. People really know how to tick me off and push my buttons. I'm so fed up with everything that I don't even want to come to school anymore.

My Goals

What kind of goals do you have for yourself as the end of the semester approaches? Did you have a successful first semester? What goals will you set for yourself for second semester?

My goal is to keep my grades up. I have all A's and two B's so far for second quarter.
I had a very successful first semester. I ended with all A's and one B.
One goal I will set for second quarter is to keep my grades up. Another goal I will set is to do all my homework and hand it in on time.

Do you have any goals that you have set for yourself for school? Have been successful?