Student ID: Jennifer Agstrand 09003466
Chosen blog: Amy M. Burn´s Blog http://amymburns.musiced.net
Chosen post: Absolutely Brilliant http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/
My comments on blogs
The author: The author for the blog that I have chosen is Amy M. Burn. She is an elementary general music teacher at an independent school in New Jersey, US. She is also the President-Elect of the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME). Besides the blog she also has a webpage and she uses Twitter.
ULR: http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
Main topics: The blog is all about elementary music and music technology. The author posted her bloggspost in seven different categories that she has named; Blogrolls, Books, Lesson plans, Methodology, Reflections, Software and You can find me here. She writes about her daily life, her work and ideas that she has. She advices people about things in the world of music technology that she think is intresting.
The frequency of posts: In the “about my blog” the author says that her plan is to blog three times per week and I would say that she does that more or less. Sometimes it is some days between the post and sometimes she post a new blogpost a few days in a row. This blog also contains a variety of links to other blogs and websites such as other bloggers, YouTubevideos and Facebook groups.
The target audience: The target audience, as the author describes it as, is other elementary music educators and teachers. The author wants to achieve and to encourage teachers to enhance their music curriculums with new music technology.
The language used: The author use language that makes the reading easy and fun to read. She uses a language that is readable and interesting and it gets to you. She makes you want to find out more about the topics.
The graphics: the graphics are of a professional standard but simply and suggestive.
Embedded artifacts: She uses some embedded artifacts, like some links to some websites and a blogroll.
The interaction taking place: There is not that much interaction taking place on this blog but there is a few comments from people who are mentioned in the posts and you can find some information contributed by readers
Favorite post and why: My favorite post is the one of the post that I commented on. The author has named the post “absolutely brilliant” and she posted it on October the 15th in 2009. The post itself does not say that much but the author posted a link to youtube with a fantastic videoclip. The author describes that the video originally romancing your soul and when I looks at the video I thought that it is fascinating.
My comments.
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/18/new-music-education-major-facebook-community/#comments
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