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- About Me:
- I am the e-Learning Facilitaor for PeaK-ICT, five primary schools in Kawerau, New Zealand.
- Website:
- http://jeanettem.edublogs.org/
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The Original 31 Day Challenge Members
The Building a Better Blog site started after a group of bloggers worked together to go through Darren Rowse's 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project. They were:
Brent MacKinnon
Brent MacKinnon
miniLegends Class (group of 9-year olds from Australia is joining in the blogging fun!)
Nancy Riffer
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A professional looking, busy blog with lots to look at on initial entry. A blogger who has a great grasp of using widgets and has used them to give a good impression when first finding this blog. (It took me months to get the ‘hang’ of these)
I honestly felt I was looking at a blog that had been in action for a long time, but when I looked further, there were only a couple of posts. I liked the look of it, and wanted to spend time looking at the site. There was a variety of fonts, colours, widgets etc I spent quite a bit of time looking at all the widgets – memberships etc. I liked the voki and wordle addition on the sidebar. There were hyperlinks to take me to other sites etc.
Yes, it is easy to read/navigate and understand. However, I have made a comment further down about font colour and hyperlinks.
Felt like an interesting place to be and explore further.
To improve your blog:- Just to take care with the font colours. When I see a blue font I assume they are a hyperlink and my first reaction is to click on it to see where it will take me.
I would not use double underlines (or does your theme make hyperlinks double underlines?) or single underlines for the very same reason.
I would rename the ‘tour of duty’ page, ‘about me’ as it is simpler (or add another page with this as a heading), describing your background.
Put the meta at the bottom of the sidebar as it is only useful to the blogger rather than the reader. I would push the clustr map up higher as it is a great motivator and shows that you already have an audience. Put your badge up top and add pages to the widgets (or is that what your them does. It is good when pages are tabs across the top of the page.)
There is a problem with adding comments to your blog. It comes up with an error 404 message for me as well. Do you know what the cause of that is? You might need to login and goto your comments and see what restrictions are on them.
Some further questions:- Have you been a teacher and if so what classes have you taught? Are you a subject specialist before taking this on? Where else have worked?
The design is busy, colourful, interesting and tempts further exploration. I like the widgets and the badge is a great idea (have not seen that before)
What I remembered 10 mins later
The clever and full use of widgets and the fact that I thought it was an established blog, only to find there were only two posts. The formatting and insertion of a table.
Cheers, paul
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