Evaluation Of Module Blog

Overall I enjoyed my Online Blog project...for the most part. The Blogger software has really tried my patience with all the random "I didn't tell you to do that!!" paragraph making, font changing, pictures not resizing issues, which meant I spent far too much time reviewing and editing pretty much every post I did just so it looked readable. 

But in terms of the actual project I really do feel like I've learnt something about the online sector of journalism, which I had never really explored before. I learnt all about RSS feeds, Twitter and Google Reader, some useful tools that I had never heard of before this module and I had never kept a blog before, despite their obvious usefulness to journalism students. 

I enjoyed being able to write about literally anything I wanted for pretty much the first time in the course. In the feature I could write about a subject which I have a great interest in, and ideally would like to specialise in after I graduate. It also gave me a chance to practice all different kinds of journalism, for example for my feature I had a mix of reviews, lists and other stories.

In the blog I could talk about anything I wanted, no matter how random or seemingly irrelevant. It felt like a more personal kind of journalism, which I felt really made the lecture enjoyable, as well as informative.