Reflection

For this blog project I definitely had a difficult time which I can attribute to my lack of fondness for technological outlets for writing. To me, I find writing to be a fun and freeing experience but for this project I felt constricted to the outline of a blog post. I associated a blog post with a short and to-the-point essay and I felt as though I had to limit myself for a lot of the blog. I found myself writing a lot and when I would publish them to my blog it would look extremely cluttered and overwhelming. This taught me how to write more concisely and just get straight to the point without a lot of fluff. I think think that my blog has a really fun design which makes my semi-dense topic a little more appealing to read. I also like that I added a lot of videos and movie trailers so that my kind-of-boring topic would be captivating to my generation. I thought really hard about the videos I would use to support my writing and I think that I accomplished that task. I wish that I would have had the opportunity to add more fun and interactive side-bar things, but I feel as though Blogger did not offer too many of these for law.  I came into this project not knowing anything about a blog, and I honestly learned so much about how to create a captivating blog. I learned what to use, ie: YouTube videos, to make my blog more appealing for younger generations. I feel as though my blog is something that people can look at if they are interested in law, especially in how technology is seen in it. I learned that if I want to create a successful blog I need to have things that will make my readers wanting to come back. Which is why I included topics such as Legally Blonde and Law and Order. I also thought that it would be interesting and informative to write about advocacy, and hopefully others will find it useful. One thing that I do not like about my blog is that it lacks a good amount of interactive gadgets. I added the share on Facebook and Twitter so that my readers can share my posts on their social networking sites, but I feel as though others had more interesting interactive features. If I could change something for my blog this would definitely be my number one choice. I worked really hard on trying to make the actual writing of my blog interesting and informative so I hope that my lack of interacting makes up for this. I also worked really hard and making sure that my blog had captivating colors and fonts that will make my audience not shy away from the dense topic of law. I also worked really hard on making sure that my blog would be interesting to my peers so that it could actually be a useful blog for those interested in law. I would definitely give my blog an A/A- because I feel as though my posts are really strong, but the interacting aspect of it is lacking which could cause for a slightly lower grade.