Writing For Multimedia And The Web - Reflection Week 11

To describe this week. It was..

Was it the same with anyone else? No, no one? Well, it was intense for me.

So, this week, Ms Amreet wanted to review everyone's blog in front of class. At the first mention of this I decided to react by being staggered on my seat and sweating profusely. I wasn't prepared to have this blog evaluated in front of everyone! Sure, basically anyone can open up this blog, but having people read your blog on their own time and space is very different than having everyone reviewing and nit-pick on your blog in your own presence.

I quickly logged in and review the blog dozens of time myself even though there was nothing wrong with it. Watching as she went through each link and getting closer and closer to the link to my blog was intense. Then finally...

I watched as she clicked on the link to my blog. Unfortunately, my blog decided to start off with a rather depressing song, even though there were many more other uplifting songs it could have played (my playlist was on random). And the song was 8 minutes long, so it played throughout the whole evaluation. Ms Amreet even noted on how the song was making her sad, and I was on my seat being all like..

As she peered through the content of my blog, she noticed how it was lacking any images and pictures. To be honest I did use pictures.... three pictures total for the whole blog. But I could see her point. My blog was too wordy and it was hard to maintain interest when there's a sea of words on your screen. She advised me to add more pictures to my blog and to change the soundtrack to a more uplifting track. And thus, she proceeded to review another person's blog, much to my relief.

me after the evaluation

In the end, the evaluation was actually very beneficial and gave me valuable input on how to improve this blog. I got rid of the sad song from my soundtrack and put in a whole lot more pictures and images in my posts. Though now looking back at this particular post, I think I might be abusing the need to put in more pictures in my blog.... But, oh well, the first failings are the beginnings of future successes.