Reflection Post

During my blogging I learned a lot of good things I did and a lot of bad things I did.

I think I need to improve my:


* Color/ Font
* Spelling
* Grammar
* More pictures
* More information
* Link to a video...


I think that using class blog was a lot of fun and it was useful if someone was absent! Sometimes blogging was a bit to much work if we had other homework, but anyway it was very fun :D

My post for the 3rd quarter has improved a lot, as I undestand from the comments the 7th and 8th graders made to me. I had both positives and negatives! My comments helped me understand what I did wrong and what I am supposed to do better on in the 4th quarter. Some things that I did well on were:

• good pictures
• good colors/font
• good websites
• easy to read
• good information
  
• good captions
• labels are done correctly
  
• the science is good
• grammar and punctuation
• well orginazed
• great length
• not boring
• fun and easy to read

Some things that I could improve next time were:

• Spelling, proofread for spelling mistake
• Explain on the cigarette picture a little more
• Previewing the post before I publish it
• Include questions for the activity, not only answers
• Link directly to audacity
• Explain commercials a bit more
• Use more bullet points
• Explain more about smoking
• Organize information better
• Add the pro smoking radio commercial
  

Overall, I think that blogging is ok to use! It was fun in some ways, but I think that people mainly kept an eye on their comments and the post to be really good because this project is graded! I also didn't like that the comments had due dates, I found that kind of annoying. Also when your writting a reflection post or a post, your writting it on a small window and I don't like that at all and I find it really hard to write like that! But I liked how we got to express our ideas about somebody's elses post and they got to share their ideas about my post! Blogger also helped me when I was out of class, and I kind of knew what we were doing in class and I think it helped other people too. Overall blogging was ok to me and I think we should continue doing this!

Nathan's Reflection Post 3rd Quarter

Nathan's Reflection Post

There are many things about my scribe post that I did good on, and some I need to improve on. From looking at comments, I did well in:

• Pictures (need captions)
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Coverage
• Hyperlinks
• Color
• Spacing
  

Some things I need to improve on that people suggested:

• Adding Date
• Simple Definitions
• More Detail
• Couple More Links
• Tenses
• Couple More Pictures
• Titles

The blog has really helped me when I was sick and missing school, and I think that is a major benefit of the class blog. Although very helpful, the blog has become a bit annoying to keep up with, even though we have further comment due dates. Other than that, I like the idea of a blog and I think it would help the class to keep using it.

Valentina's Reflection Post

Hi to everybody,

This quarter my blog post was better than last year, but I still had ways I could have improved.

Here are the things that I should have improved in this blog post and who wrote them;

• I should have added more pictures at the end of the post (Viktor),
• Add a date of the Science class in my title (Viktor),
• My grammar (especially in the Japan section) was a bit off (Ms.D and Sophie),
• My hyperlinks were a bit too old or complicated to understand (Ms.D),
• I had trouble with explaining the nuclear reactor problem (Ms.D),
• My fuel rods explanation was not completely correct (MS.D),
• I mistook nuclear reactors for atomic ones (Sophie and Tamara),
• I should have explained what the different simple machines were (Sophie and Courtney),
• I should have organized the information I gave in a better way, for example by using bullets (Sophie),
• I should have made the hyperlinks stand out more so they were clearer (Courtney),
• I should have split up the paragraphs (Gio),
• I had some grammar and spelling mistakes (Gio),
• I could have highlighted key words (Gio),
• I could have concentrated more on the simple machines we were working on rather than the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan (Gio),
• My pictures were badly organized (Davide),
• The captions weren't clear (Davide),
• I could have added more excitement in the second part (Davide),
• Should have added a video to explain the problem in Japan (Davide),
• I made a mistake with the one of the groups and omitted Davide (Davide).

I was also told that I improved from last year in some different ways as well as I did some good things in my blog post, which are the following, with who wrote the comments;

• My diagrams were good (Viktor),
• My spelling and punctuation were okay (Ms.D),
• My labels look good (Ms.D),
• My hyperlinks were very good (Ms.D, Viktor, Gio, Davide, and Sophie),
• People also like that I had a picture for each one of the Simple Machines (Ms.D, Davide, Gio, Sophie, Viktor and Courtney),
• I covered the fuel rods and how they were used (Ms.D),
• I followed all the requirements on the rubric (Ms.D),
• My post was clear and easy to read (Sophie),
• I talked about everything we did in class (Courtney),
• The readers liked that I included the explosion in Japan (Tamara),
• I also gave a very accurate description of the class (Gio),
• I went pretty far with the science (Gio),
• I covered what we did in class (Gio),
• It was good that I at least gave a general background of who was working with who for the simple machines presentation (Davide),
• People also liked that I included the temperature at which the nuclear bars had to be put/ used.(Davide).

That was mostly it with the different comments and things that I did well or should have improved!
I like the idea of blogging because it keeps people up to date with what is happening, and if they had some problems, missed class or did not understand something that had happened they can always go to the blog and read a simpler explanation that contains the main events of that science class. I also like that we had to write less posts because one didn't feel as blocked and I thought it let people put more effort in the ones they did because there were less to have to do. Although I did not find it fair that some people were judged on the color that their blog was when it was actually the blogger program itself that didn't post the colors as the author had wanted to have them! Also the grammar check highlighted three quarters of the words even when they were really right! One last thing I didn't like was that, on my computer for example, the virus blocker wouldn't let me post the comment many times, and would (as Courtney said) erase everything because apparently the site contained a high risk of viruses.

Overall thought it is a good method to share ideas, learn more and discuss the events that happened in that particular science class!

Courtney's Reflection Post

My 3rd quarters blog post was okay. From the comments, it had: nice colors, a link to moodle (for homework), a nice diagram, good definitions, notes on the topic... But, next time I should include: a date, more pictures, a caption for the pictures, more notes about the topics I talked about, I should indent the paragraphs, more links... These are all things that I should improve for the 4th quarter.

The benefits of a class blog are: the fact that if you are absent on the day of the blog, you can see what your classmates did including pictures, notes, links and vocabulary; you can see your homework; and maybe if there is a visitor on the blog or a parent, then they can see what your friend or child did... There are only a couplethings that I dislike about blogger, and they are: that blogger sometimes deletes your comment or erases half of it; or on some computers blogger does not check your spelling.

Blogging this quarter was overall fun! There are a few negative things about blogger, but these are things tat we have to deal with. I had a fun time blogging this quarter, and I am looking forward to blogging again next quarter!