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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Recap of Week One in the Blog World

After a very exciting week one in our class’s blog assignments, I have come to a couple conclusions. First, a common theme for the guys seems to be about sports, or more specifically football. Second, I’m glad that Brandon is doing his blog about the Westlake game this week, seeing as the first post about the Elyria game did not make the football team so all too hot. Finally, in my honest opinion, the best idea for a blog would have to go to Talia for the “The Ultimate Bucket List”.
Tis’ the season for fall leaves, school, weird Ohio weather, but most importantly football. It does not surprise me that the most common blog topic among guys is football. People love football! It is fall there’s nothing better than being a dude on a Sunday, sitting back and watching football for hours on end. I love to see that many people in our class have taken such an interest in this sport, whether it is the pro level, college, or even high school.
The Avon Lake football team did not open the season on the right foot, and Brandon Miller definitely took notice. He held nothing back, even stating, “The Shoremen had a tough night offensively and defensively as they gave up 31 points to an okay team.” All in all though we kind of deserved it, we played horribly. I hope to see maybe some kinder words in his newest post.

I do not want ot criticize anybody else’s ideas at all, but for me, the most creative idea for the blogs was the bucket list from Talia.  I know everyone else did a blog about something that they are interested in, and I respect that, but her idea seemed the least ordinary. If I were to think of blog ideas I think my first four would be books, sports, politics, and music. I love the idea for a bucket list, that is something that I would want to read; it would catch my eye right off the bat. Kudos to Talia for a great idea. 


Thursday, September 3, 2015

Mr. Arra's Blog


          At first glance, Mr. Arra's blog is very enticing. He makes great use of gadgets, photos, and links to other pages. He even includes a very cute picture of his kid. The layout is intriguing and catches even a novice blog reader’s eye. His blog helps keep his students up to date on assignments and extra credit too. For example, instead of coming to him about what the class turnitin.com username is, you can simply look back at the blog. His blog has everything that student who is in journalism could need.


            I also particularly enjoyed the links to past students’ blogs. It is great to see Mr. Arra acknowledge those who really did a great job with this project. I’m sure it feels tremendous for the students as well to be recognized that way. The links to these blogs also serve as great examples for future students when writing blogs.


     The down side however to his blog, he has yet to update this blog since September of 2013! If Mr. Arra truly wishes to take his blogging skills to the next level and up those page views, then he will need to come out with some new material for his blog.


I would also like to see him include more articles that are fun to read rather than simply just assignments. The blog layout is attention grabbing, but some of the articles need to be as well. I realize that it is not made for fun articles but, it will appeal to students more if there is an article every once in a while that doesn’t pertain to homework.


All in all Mr. Arra’s blog is great with one fatal flaw, not being updated in two years. That is something that can easily be fixed and Mr. Arra’s blog could return to the spotlight soon.
 
 
http://mrarra.blogspot.com/