The above is an image of what the blog that I created looks like. In English 114b we were asked to create a blog on a certain topic of our choice. The project seemed very exciting yet scary. Here are the things that I knew about blogs:
-They were composed of multimedia.
-There are many kinds.
Thats about as far as it gets as to me knowing about blogs. Now here is what I didnt know:
Thats about as far as it gets as to me knowing about blogs. Now here is what I didnt know:
-Where to create one.
-How to create one.
-How to upload things to it.
-What would be an interesting topic.
-How to create one.
-How to upload things to it.
-What would be an interesting topic.
It was obvious that I didnt know much about blogging and that is what made this project exciting and scary at the same time. Having this in mind I didnt back down from the project instead I was interested in the whole blogging thing. So I kept my cool and I waited to see how things would turn out.
“Everyone this is Blogger, Blogger this is everyone,” thats what we basically heard in class when the professor introduced us to blogging. Blogger is part of the Google team and their role is to help people have their own voice on the web. How do they do this you may ask, well through people creating blogs in Blogger. During some class sessions our professor showed us how to create a blog and post stuff in it. We learned to put videos and pictures on the post’s and also tag posts. Suddenly it didn't seem as complicated as I thought and I was very confident on being able to create a blog.
I already knew how to use Blogger to create a blog. The next thing that I needed to do is to find out what my topic was going to be. This was a bit harder than I expected. I needed to choose a topic that would work out well and keep my blog alive. I finally decided what my topic would be and I needed to present it in class. I had to do this through a fifteen second content pitch. I had to stand in front of class and present in fifteen seconds my topic and what it would consist of. This was something new to me and it seemed difficult but it was simply presenting key points to your audience and it was a great way to do so. My topic was approved by everyone so I moved forward to putting it on a blog.
The topic that I chose was rock music. In my blog I presented people to rock music, on how it came to be and where it has gone to. I posted different things on my blog. Some consisted of articles and others of videos. On some of these posts I had to look for some articles related to my topic on the web. This was a bit challenging to do but I managed to get through it. Posting videos on the blog was much easier for me. i already had an idea of how to attach a video to a post so it wasn't difficult at all. What was really interesting was tagging every post that I uploaded to my blog. I wasn't familiar with that type of stuff but it was fun to do. It was simply finding key points of each post and using those as the tags for each post.
I already knew how to use Blogger to create a blog. The next thing that I needed to do is to find out what my topic was going to be. This was a bit harder than I expected. I needed to choose a topic that would work out well and keep my blog alive. I finally decided what my topic would be and I needed to present it in class. I had to do this through a fifteen second content pitch. I had to stand in front of class and present in fifteen seconds my topic and what it would consist of. This was something new to me and it seemed difficult but it was simply presenting key points to your audience and it was a great way to do so. My topic was approved by everyone so I moved forward to putting it on a blog.
The topic that I chose was rock music. In my blog I presented people to rock music, on how it came to be and where it has gone to. I posted different things on my blog. Some consisted of articles and others of videos. On some of these posts I had to look for some articles related to my topic on the web. This was a bit challenging to do but I managed to get through it. Posting videos on the blog was much easier for me. i already had an idea of how to attach a video to a post so it wasn't difficult at all. What was really interesting was tagging every post that I uploaded to my blog. I wasn't familiar with that type of stuff but it was fun to do. It was simply finding key points of each post and using those as the tags for each post.
Some posts consisted of basic summaries and opinions about articles that I found interesting. It was like a little tease from the article in order to get the audience hooked and give them that desire of wanting to read the articles. There was articles that supported my topics and there was articles that totally went against my topic. What I learned through summarizing articles was having the audience one click away from these articles. I had learned to link the articles to one word in the post in order to redirect the audience to the article. It was an easy learned task and made the post look more clean. Clean in a sense that there was no url that was visible in the post.
The couple of post’s that contained articles that were agains my topic were very interesting. They all basically had one point in common. There point was that rock music was dead. In there opinion rock music was not what it used to be. Clearly it was true that rock music is not what it used to be, but that did not mean it was dead instead it was evolving. Those contradicting articles gave way for me, as the blogger, to show the audience the evolution that rock music had taken.
I wanted to show and share to the audience the type of music that I liked while showing them how rock music has changed over time and what it has gone to be around the world. I was able to do both of these things through the use of videos. Here is the process that I went through to do this:
1. I first decided what was a song that I liked and that would work great in this blog.
The couple of post’s that contained articles that were agains my topic were very interesting. They all basically had one point in common. There point was that rock music was dead. In there opinion rock music was not what it used to be. Clearly it was true that rock music is not what it used to be, but that did not mean it was dead instead it was evolving. Those contradicting articles gave way for me, as the blogger, to show the audience the evolution that rock music had taken.
I wanted to show and share to the audience the type of music that I liked while showing them how rock music has changed over time and what it has gone to be around the world. I was able to do both of these things through the use of videos. Here is the process that I went through to do this:
1. I first decided what was a song that I liked and that would work great in this blog.
2. I looked up that video of the certain song.
3. I posted the video of that song on my blog.
4. Did some research on the band that played the song.
5.Posted that information with the video on the blog.
That is the basic process that I went through in order to post these videos on my blog. In my opinion this worked out well because I provided the audience with music that I liked. Not only modern music but also some stuff that was from the past.
Eventually we had to create a poll and post it on our blog. Like blogging creating a poll was something entirely new to me. I didn't where to create the poll and how to create it. Learning the process of creating a poll was not very hard. The professor linked us a website where we were able to create a poll. This website made it simple and easy to create a poll and it led me through the whole process. After creating the poll I was able to uploaded to my blog. The poll consisted of one question which was, whats your favorite sub-genre of rock? They had five different choices which were, indie, blues rock, heavy metal, alternative and punk rock. To me it was very interesting to see what people chose.
If there was something that I would’ve liked to explore more in this project it would have to be the fifteen second content pitch. I founded to be something interesting and would’ve liked if we were given the chance to explore this type of idea some more. I believe that learning and mastering the fifteen second content pitch would’ve been very beneficial and of great use in the future. It would’ve also been interesting to go further into the idea of blogging and see some of the different type of blogs that are in web.
Overall, blogging was a great experience. All the questions that I had at the beginning were answered throughout the process of blogging. It was great expressing myself through blogging and letting people know a bit about my interest through this project. It was a bit hard but overall fun. Blogging has opened up another door not just for me but for many others in order to get there voice and opinion out there.
If there was something that I would’ve liked to explore more in this project it would have to be the fifteen second content pitch. I founded to be something interesting and would’ve liked if we were given the chance to explore this type of idea some more. I believe that learning and mastering the fifteen second content pitch would’ve been very beneficial and of great use in the future. It would’ve also been interesting to go further into the idea of blogging and see some of the different type of blogs that are in web.
Overall, blogging was a great experience. All the questions that I had at the beginning were answered throughout the process of blogging. It was great expressing myself through blogging and letting people know a bit about my interest through this project. It was a bit hard but overall fun. Blogging has opened up another door not just for me but for many others in order to get there voice and opinion out there.
Works Cited
"The Story of Blogger ." Blogger. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <https://www.blogger.com/about>.
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