Blog Reflection

1.     See Weblog Rubric

2.     For my book review blog I wrote eight posts. The books I wrote about were The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, The Pact by Jodi Picoult, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling and Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard.

3.     I included a number of quotes for some books that were powerful to the true meaning of the book. For example I used the quote “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once” because it portrays how much the main characters loves each other and that there connection was much deeper than regular teenage relationships.

4.     I chose the gadget of showing recent comments because it is a nice reminder to me that other people are reading and appreciating my blog. Also for other readers it gives them insight into what other people’s opinion’s are on the books I’ve reviewed. I also chose the gadget on translator because some of my viewers are from different countries so I want them to be able to translate it into the language they speak.

5.     The template I chose for my blog works well with my theme of books because the colour brown is usally associated with books. Also the map in the background shows that the books are talk about are famous all over the world and the topics of the books are very worldy and talk about different cultures. 

6.     I included a picture of myself so that my followers would know there is a real person behind the writing.

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8.     My followers are Brenda Chan, Matt M, Brodie J, Thomas P, Andy, Evan.

9.     I was able to check my comments and control what comments I want to be seen on my blog. For example if a comment was inappropriate then I can delete it. Also it was nice to have that control over blog.

10. I was very happy to see that other people has read over my blog and made comments. They all had nice things to say about my different post and hopefully they read some of the books I suggested.

11. I made sure when I was commenting on my followers blog to make the comments nice and appropriate. Each blog have very unique and different posts.

12. I used a number of pictures but made sure that the first picture for every blog is to be the book cover so the readers would know what the book looked like if they wanted to find it.

13. My one video post was a trailer for the third harry potter movie so readers could see how the movie is different from the book.

14. I checked through all the grammar to make sure it sounded proper.

15. Analytics were added to help monitor my weblog

Analytics Summary:

            I added the analytics so every time I open up my blog I can so I can see how many people have looked at my blog, where they live and who can published a comment on my blog. It is very easy to find because it pops up on the first page that you go to for your blog. Everyday that I work on my blog I see that I have six followers and nine posts. It helps me keep track of what I have written so far and how many page view’s I have gotten today.