"How I see it now" Blog Review

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Organization and Layout

The size of font and line spacing are moderate, making the paragraph easy to read for audiences. I feel comfortable with the blogs when I scroll through the texts.

Additionally, there are some pictures in the blog. I can understand the blogger’s attempt at making texts pleasing to audiences. However, if I were the blogger, I would add photos of real interaction between my students and me, rather than virtual images. By this means, the blog could be more attractive and pragmatic for teacher audiences.

Content and Features

I have discovered a very interesting point that the blog is not filled with very technical issues. Instead, there is some interdisciplinary discussion and the blogger’s own experience sharing. For instance, the blogger focuses on a psychotherapy term and suggests teachers to employ this notion to help students explore personal life meaning in TESOL class. The blogger doesn’t seem to make audiences follow operating steps for high-tech teaching tools. In another blog, the blogger mentions a term called the honeymoon hangover effect and shares his own experience of decline in teaching career satisfaction. 



Besides, the blogger puts some critical thinking into the discussion by mentioning both strength and weakness of a certain teaching tool. For instance, in the blog “AI in the classroom”, the blogger introduces an APP called ChatGPT, which could support detailed answers for class tasks and assignments. She deliberately mentions the biggest problem with ChatGPT, lack of language accuracy, which could help audiences, to some degree, avoid teaching inefficiency. What’s more, she shows some examples of answers got in ChatGPT, which could give audiences a straightforward picture of what the tool could do. 
(See more: https://hanatichaeltblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/18/ai-in-the-classroom/)

Ease of use and Navigation

When I finish one blog reading, I have to scroll up to the top again in order to see the navigation column. I think this is inconvenient for audiences because the operation of scrolling up and down. If I were the blogger, I would choose to add brief introduction in the navigation column and make audiences get to know the main idea of each blog before reading in detail.

Target of Audience

The target audience is English teachers. The blogger makes effort to share feeling and experience associated with teaching. She decides to deliver the talk between teacher audiences and herself in a casual and informal way. There are dozens of comments below the blogs. The blogger lists the most popular blogs on the left side of webpages. From the comments from teacher audiences, I could see some personal connection between the blogger and them. Some audience may know the blogger personally and have considerable sympathy with the blogger’s ideas and feelings. It such a harmonious online community that the blogger commits herself to.


My recent blog reading list: 

https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/


There is a YouTube clip about blogging and you may find it usefull. 

"How to write technical blog posts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YODPgBadj80



Location: 英国

Comments

  1. LuJanuary 27, 2023 at 6:50 AM

    Hi Yangyang, it's great review of Hana's blog. The pictures you use help us know more details. I have some tips that you can use a more attractive title and create your own profile to let us know about you. By the way, I like your PINK background!

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