Monday, February 21, 2011

Peer Blog Evaluation -- Jessica Vavrinec

  1. Peer Blog Evaluation -- Jessica Vavrinec
    1. Number of Posts
      16
    2. Quality of Posts
      There are at least two substantial posts per week, with a few shorter one thrown in.
    3. A Strength
      There are a couple of posts (Henry V and Macbeth) where she just writes her thoughts, in bulleted list form, about these plays as she reads them. This is very interesting.  There are also a few great posts with video comparisons of different movie versions of speeches.  (Hamlet and Macbeth).  I also really enjoyed this post about YA literature based on Shakespeare, drawing on her personal interests.  I am looking forward to a follow up post where she explains how she enjoyed those YA novels.
    4. Suggested Improvement
      One thing I noticed, just glancing through the history of the posts, is that she could benefit from point 2 of this post, and add jump breaks to her posts.  There could also be a little more in depth analysis of the plays, as most of the posts seem to be more cursory.  It's a good blog, but with some good room for improvement.

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Thanks for a good analysis of Jessica's blog. I hope she does follow up on the YA novel idea, as it certainly seemed worth developing. Thanks for suggesting jump breaks. She could follow your lead or several other students who are doing some of their posts as more substantial analyses. I'm glad you recognized her strengths.
Thanks for your review and especially for your suggestions. I hope that as I look at the YA novels and focus more on what I'm interested in that my posts will be more substantial and meaningful.
1 reply · active 736 weeks ago
Gideon explains it in point 2 on this post (http://shakespeareunbound.blogspot.com/2011/01/making-your-posts-inviting.html) with a screenshot of what button to click on in Blogger.
You just put your cursor in your text where you want to add the jump cut and then click the button.

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