1. How does the tool relate to the topic of the week?
Blogger is a type of blog which are a social media tools for communicating with people online and posting opinions on different topics in a convenient place for others to view which is it relates to the current weeks topic of blogs.
2. What function does the tool serve?
Blogger's function is to allow people a convenient place to post their ideas online for others to view and to provide some basic information for others without the hassle of creating a full website. They are useful for stating opinions and on different topics like movies or restaurants.
3. What did you find most interesting about the tool?
The thing I found most interesting about blogger was the ease of access to the blog because it was directly through Google. I found it very simply to create the blog and name it and to be able to start blogging and posting different ideas. I also found it easy to change the different templates and design the blog how you wanted it to look
4. What did you find most challenging?
I found it a little difficult to add various gadgets that were not already provided through blogger because you had to change the coding for the blog site in order to do so.
5. How does the tool improve or complicate communication?
The tool improves communication because it allows people to easily post their ideas in a convenient location for others to read about and for those people to respond too. The problem with this though is that it can be difficult to interpret what people mean and responses can take longer to be received unlike in a normal face to face conversation where responses are traded instantly between two people. It can also be difficult to follow the conversation if multiple people respond because their could be too many people to keep track if the blog is followed by enough people
6. What is your critique of your experience?
Overall I enjoyed working with blogger because I found it much easier to navigate than previous blogs I had used or seen from other sites. I especially liked the fact that the templates were so easy to set up and design the way you wanted the blog to look.
I also found it difficult to add different widgets and gadgets to the blog page. The gadgets that were given in the blog settings were easy to incorporate into your blog, but the widgets that were taken from other websites were more difficult to add. I feel like the more widgets that are added the easier it will be.
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