The student analyzed blogs from other students who completed similar tasks of creating a teaser trailer and magazine cover. The student noticed the blogs had sections for contributors and archives but did not label the different types of work. Most blogs showed final products and some process details but did not utilize different presenting software or technologies. The student learned they need to provide detailed explanations of each step of the process and use various technologies in their own blog to meet assessment criteria and make the information clear and interesting for readers.

1. Analysis of A2 Blogs

2. Firstly, I looked at Claire, Hannah, Cindy and Steph’s
blog who did a similar task as mine which is creating a
teaser trailer.

3. What I noticed first was that on the
sidebar, they two sections called
contributors and a blog archive. This
blog has four different contributors
so it makes sense to have links to
their individual blogs but as my own,
I am the only contributor so this
wouldn’t be necessary for me. Also,
the blog archive is useful as we can
see what work was done at what time
however, I noticed that there were no
labels that clearly stated what type of
work it was, for example, research or
planning. Therefore, it is harder to
navigate through the blog and we
cannot see specific work related to
the label.

4. Also, while showing their final
poster, they went into explained
about specific details such as the
tear although, it wasn’t as detailed,
we could still gain somewhat of an
idea on what they were aiming to do.

5. In addition, they showed 4
different ideas of how they
wanted their poster to look like.
This is useful as we can
understand that instead of using
the first idea they came up with,
they tried to look at different
ways to portray their image and
the best way their poster would
be effective.

6. However, a negative is that they haven’t used various
types of presenting software and have resorted to having
texts as posts. Although, they have used some software
like slideshare and their own video. This is useful as one
of the criteria is to show evidence of use of technology so
I can see that in order to gain higher marks, I need to
make use of different websites to show my information.

7. I’ve also noticed that they
haven’t embedded their Prezi
onto the blog which could show
less use of technology and
instead they’ve used screen
captures of the different steps in
the Prezi and given a short
description.

8. Secondly, I looked at Emily and Tolga’s blog who had
a similar main task as mine as well as the previous
blog I analysed.

9. Development of Magazine
This was the first post that spoke out to me. This post outlined the process of
how they created each aspect of the cover. This is useful as they went into
detail and explained each part rather than just showing the magazine. Apart
from this post, there are various other posts that show the process of creating
the cover.

10. Development of Poster
Going along the same lines as the previous slide, they have gone into
incredible detail about how they created each aspect of the poster. This is
useful as it shows me that I need to go into similar detail and show each part of
the process so that it becomes clear to the reader about each stage.

11. Although, a negative I found was that like the first blog, Emily and Tolga didn’t
make use of a lot technology as they have text heavy posts. This shows that,
once again, in order to gain high marks, I need to use different presenting
software in my posts and try to find new ways of presenting rather than using
the same websites like Prezi.

12.  I found that going into detail is key because
instead of just stating things, analysing and
showing detail will mean that the reader can get
a clearer idea of the process of reaching my final
tasks.
 Making use of technology will be beneficial as it
won’t be too text heavy and by using different
presenting software, it will be more interesting to
view.
What have I learnt?