Allison discusses how blogging has been easier and more enjoyable than expected. She finds it easier to blog from her room than in class. Allison also notes how writing blog posts about class topics and experiences has been fun. She describes customizing her blog template with a light peach color scheme and bird design. Allison reflects on learning various tools on Blogger and Photoshop to enhance her blog posts with pictures, videos, and formatting.

1. Allison Bruno

2. • Blogging is not as hard as I thought it would be.
• I find it easier to blog when I am in my room than in class
• It is a way of expression that has become more and more
popular as I have grown up
• Writing about experiences that follow along with the
topics given in class as assignments has been more fun
than I thought
• “And Today Was A Day Just Like Any Other”

3. My template is simple
The colors are bright and range
from a light peach to a darker
peach color
There is a design of a bird at the
top which gives it something
extra

4. Valuable Tools
Freedom of designing your writing
Picture tool makes it easy to add pictures to the blog
Spell check helps me out a lot
Convenient tools:
Video tool
Link and html tool

5. I had used Photoshop before in my digital photo class
in high school
The basics I remember, but there is so many tools it
becomes confusing
I like the ways pictures come out when you
Photoshop them, but using the right tools to get you
there is harder than it looks
The more I explore the more I learn, but there is still a
ways to go

6. Crop tool
Brightness/contrast
Exposure
Vibrancy
Spot healing brush
Blur tool

7. Before
After

8. Blogger.com makes it really easy to incorporate photos
I think it helps make the blog more interesting
The pictures go with the writing
Visuals always make things more appealing
I enjoy being able to put pictures with my written posts to
help support what I am saying

9. Blogger.com
Photoshop