Posted by
gemma on Wednesday, November 23rd 2011
Okay, so for the student blogging challenge week 10 we had to evaluate our work on the challenge.
Registration: Is two weeks early enough for registration to begin before the first challenge?
Well I think that two weeks is a pretty good time range, but some people didn’t get to it for about three weeks, so I would probably make it a month.
Subscription: Did you subscribe by RSS or email in order to get the posts as soon as they were published?
I subscribed by email, so I could read it. I also went on the website on a Sunday or Monday to check it too.
Student and class participants: How useful are these pages in the header of the blogging challenge?
I didn’t really use them that much, but I did go on the participants a lot to see how other people were going compared to me.
The challenges:
- Did you visit the actual challenge on the blog each week or did your teacher have a post on your class blog?
I had subscribed and checked the website each week. My teacher also gave us a checklist of what we had to do for that weekly challenge.
- Which challenges were the most useful?
I really liked Challenge Six-Global Issues, because my post on poverty received a really good response. I also thought it was good because it got the word spread about global issues.
- Which challenges were the most interesting?
The most interesting was Challenge Nine-Favourites, because I found out a lot of people’s favourites that I wouldn’t have previously known about.
- What would be some other topics you would like included in future challenges?
I would like more personal ones like favourites because they were the most interesting.
- Are more tutorial type challenges needed? eg how to make a link in your post?
I don’t think so. I was okay with anything I had to do, and if I wasn’t I just asked my blogging teacher.
- Were the ‘Visit these’ posts useful?
Yes, because I got to see other people’s posts on what I did, but their version.
- Were the challenges where you had to embed ie polls, cartoons, wallwisher etc interesting or could you not embed due to being a free Edublogs blog or a blogging platform that didn’t allow embedding?
I found them interesting because they were fun. I had no trouble because I have a pro blog.
- Were there enough chances to visit blogs from overseas and make links with other students/classes?
I think there could’ve been a few more, as I didn’t add heaps, but only a few.
- Did you make global connections?
Yes. I made a connection from a girl in Canada named Simone.
- Anything else you would like to mention about the challenge in particular?
I’d just like to say that the challenge has really improved my quality of posts.
Activity 2: This is an audit of your blog since the beginning of September 2011.
- How many posts did you write?
Throughout the challenge I made 14 posts.
- How many were school based, your own interests or set by the challenge?
School based- One. My own Interests- Three. Challenge-Ten.
- How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers or overseas students?
61.
- Which post received the most comments? Why do you think that happened?
The post which recieved the most comments was ‘Many Interesting Creativity Sites!’ because it had a good title and a good question at the end for people to answer.
- Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
I really enjoyed my poverty post because I am really proud of it and everyone liked it.
- Did you change blog themes at all and why?
No, I really like my theme because it is very customisable.
- How many widgets do you have? Do you think this is too many or not enough?
I have 24 widgets. I think that is okay, because most of them are links.
- How many overseas students do you have on your blogroll?
Three.
Well that was a lot of questions! Sorry if you got bored. I will now be back to normal posts, as the challenge is over.
Are there any questions that you would like to ask me about my blog? Leave a comment below.
Stay Posted,
Gemma xx
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Increasing Visits, Comments, and Hits
This is for the student blogging challenge week 8.
I have recently hit one hundred comments, which I am very proud of. But some people have some trouble trying to get comments.
I am also about to reach 2000 hits, so be prepared for a post about that too.
Some people ask me,
“How come you get so many comments on your blog?”
So I tell them some easy few steps.
1. Make sure to write a post at least once a week to keep your regular readers interested in posts, so they will comment.
2. At the end of your posts, ask a question for your readers to answer. When I do that I tend to get way more comments than usual.
3. Go onto other peoples blogs, leave a comment with your blog link, and they might respond to you.
And that is how to get more comments.
There is also the question,
“How do you get so many hits?”
So I also give them some other tips.
1. Tell people you know that you have put a new post on, and they will probably check it out. So you will get more hits.
2. If you can, add a subscribe button so then every time you add a post, people will get a new email saying that you have put a new post on, and they will see it. So you will get more hits.
3. If you don’t think you are getting enough hits, just use word of mouth. Eventually everyone will know about your blog, and you will be getting more hits.
So these are a few easy tips to get more hits and comments on your blog!
Can you think of any other ideas that would help get comments or hits on your blog? Leave a comment below.
Stay Posted,
Gemma xx