I'm one of those people who are all about growth and expansion. If something is worth doing, it's worth improving upon. Therefore, I've been looking ahead to what I might want to do with my blog when this course is over. I have been toying around with the idea of keeping my blog going as part of my teacher education - maybe even keep it going as I begin teaching. I took this into account this week when Steph gave our class the assignment of finding a blog and borrowing aspects that we liked.
While browsing for ideas that I liked, I turned to the Huff English Blog. One of the things I liked about this blog is that besides the actual blog there is information organized into individual pages. Each page can be accessed using a navigation bar at the top. So, I decided to integrate this into my blog. I added an about me page and a contact page so that visitors could easily find that information rather than dig through the blog and try to find my Blogger profile, etc. I also added my educational philosophy to tie the blog into my English education.
I also wanted to add a few features that I picked up off of several blogs that I frequent. The first is an RSS subscription widget. The other two features I added were to ease visitors in finding what they need. These are a search function and a most popular post listing. The first is self-explanatory; however, I added the second to prevent popular posts from being lost in the mix of everything I post.
I've considered what I want to do with this blog once class is finished, and I too would like to keep it and use it in my future teaching. I've had this idea in the corner of my brain ever since I began my blog, and it's funny how it's affected the way I write and topics I choose to write about. I've almost censored myself, in a way, so that I don't have anything on there that might make me seem less professional.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like the blog you chose to model yours after. I had never seen it before, so thanks for the new read!