Blog Evaluation...

1. How easy has it been to set up your Independent Study blog and to get used to posting things on it? Were you given enough support in doing it? What other help would have been useful?

It has been very easy to set up the blog and its quick and easy to post up information onto my blog. we were given enough support doing it as sir demonstrated how to set up the blog in class. No other help would have been useful as it was easy to set up the blog.

2. How did the blog help with your research? Did the blog motivate you to do more and better research? How? Why?

The blog did help with my research. For example there were useful links posted up that linked to my independent study. Yhea it did motivate me to do more better research because it saved me the hassle of printing out information and stuff.

3. Is it useful having all the Independent Study/blog tasks posted on the Macguffin blog? Does it make it more likely that you will get them done?

Yhea of course because the instructions were clear on what we had to do for each specific task. Also by having tasks posted up on the blog did enable me to get the work done, but i would have done the work either way.

4. How often (honestly!) do you check the Macguffin blog? (Remember, it should be at least twice/week).

I check it everyday lol!!

5. Has it been useful being able to see and access everyone else’s research and planning through their blogs?

Yhea it has been very useful as you can see what research other people have done. Also it did make me work harder coz everyone was putting alot of effort into their blogs.

6. How do you feel about the fact that your teacher can keep a close check on your progress through accessing your blog? Is it too intrusive and controlling or is it encouraging and supportive?

I think that ot was a good thing that teachers could chek the work i was doing because it did motivate me in a way as i was encouraged to do more work. This also showed that both mr munro n mr bush shared an interest in our work.

7. How useful have the comments been that you received from…a. Macguffin, b. other students.

a) i have recieved none from macguffin lol

b) yhea they have been useful as they told me what was good and bad bout the work i was doing.

8. How has the blog helped with your essay planning? How useful was the blog when it came to writing the essay? Do you think your first draft is better because you have used a blog?

It has helped alot becasue all the research i needed was on the blog so it helped make my independent study better when writing my essay. It also helped plan my essay because each task was specifically chosen to link with me essay.

9. How would you evaluate the quality of your blog? What could you have done better?

I think the quality of my blog is very good as i have completed each task in detail. To improve i would just add more videos from youtube or something.

10. Do you think you will get a better final grade for your independent study through having used a blog?

i hope so coz all my research was mainly done by using the blog.

11. Which are the best three blogs? Why?

erm i think everyones blog was good as everyone put hard work into it.

12. Do you think next year’s Year 13s would benefit from setting up an Independent Study blog?

yhea of course

13. Are there any negative aspects to preparing for an Independent Study using a blog?

na not really although my computer did frezzze a few times when i was posting up comments lol

14. What could be done to improve teaching and/or learning in future through blogs?

erm nothing really i think everything is fine.

15. Overall, are you pleased that we used blogs? Has it been interesting and enjoyable? Why? Why not?

Yhes it has been good as other subjects dont alow you to do homework and stuff on the internet. overall i am pleased we used blogs=)