Week 7 & 8 Recap - Yr12

Over the past two weeks we have been investigating the structure and language use within a variety of different blogs. This is to build up to the next assessment task in which students are required to create a variety of blog post with the same overarching theme.

The Task:

Students are to create 7 different blog posts which share the same overarching theme.

• 3 posts must be written blogs that are a minimum of 2 pages in length
• 3 post are to be picture/image blogs with a minimum of 5 pictures per post
• 1 Vlog of approximately 4 mins in length.

Planning and research:

Written blogs
Students have studied these extensively prior to their examinations for the first part of the assessment task.
All written blogs have a post title as well as a blog title (the blog title may be used throughout all 7 posts.)
Blogs use tags to easily categorise what a blog is about.
When writing their blog posts, students will need to be aware of their audience and ensure what they write engages them.

Picture/Image blogs
In class we investigated the social imaging networks of Instagram and Pinterest. These social media sites allow users to blog images surrounding certain subject matter, interests and/or themes. Students should be aware of visual language conventions and the aesthetics of their images to ensure a strong point of view is being conveyed.

Vlogging:

In class, we investigated some of the most popular Vlogs and Vloggers on YouTube. We also investigated the conventions and stylistic devices used within Vlogs. The vids can be found on my YouTube channel for this class.

Glove and Boots Vlog on blogging.

Students should note:

• must be aware of audience at all times
• blogs should be created with purpose
• the overarching theme should be explicit
• language should be appropriate
• correct conventions should be used
• BLOGS ARE NOT TO BE LIVE BLOGS

Happy blogging!! :)