Initial Blog Ratings

Over the past few days, i have taken the time to look at your blogs and give my initial assessment. Each of the blogs has a post on the rating that i gave you as well as some comments explaining the rating. Check out the blog rubric in the sharebox if you need a guide for improving your blog.

Here are the initial ratings:

BSN4-A-methystians = 10 out of 20
N4B = 9-11 out of 20
EnFourSi = 10-11 out of 20

Again, you still have time to review your blogs so that you can improve your ratings. Read through the blog rubric in the sharebox (its downloadable) so that you will have some idea of how you can improve your blogs. You can also check out other blogs for some tips (and tricks).

So far, the most common pitfall across the blogs are very long posts that are entire copies of other web pages. Only N4C has a couple of posts that are good content-wise (click here to see what i mean).

So far the most difficult blog to navigate is EnFourSi. It's hard to get back to your "home" page without having to scroll to the bottom of the post where you will find a "home" link below the "post comments" link.

You all have good layouts but still have to take advantage of them by presenting more concise and interesting content that keeps the reader on your blog longer.