I have written nine posts since March. All my posts were set by the challenge. I didn’t write any that were school based or my own interests. I received two comments on my posts, overall.

https://natalieg7.edublogs.org/2014/05/15/week-9-what-makes-a-great-family/

I think this happened because the people that commented probably had a connection to my post and thought it was interesting. I enjoyed writing “My Passion” the most because it was an activity that I liked to do. I didn’t change my blog theme because I thought the one I originally chose was easy for users to navigate. I have eleven widgets. I think that it’s enough because I don’t want to have to many widgets on my blog because it would distract the user from reading my posts. I don’t have a blog roll.

In class today we interviewed a classmate and asked questions about each other’s blogs, and gave tips to one another on how to improve our blog. I interviewed my friend, Giselle. Here are a few things Giselle said would help improve my blog. Giselle’s first impression of my blog is that my articles are very well written. My background caught her attention. The green font on my blog made it hard for her to read. Giselle suggested to change the color of my font.

Happy Blogging! 🙂

For the Edublog’s Awards this year I’m nominating, Cristina. She’s 13 years old and likes to play volleyball and go shopping. I’m nominating Cristina because I thought her blog was creative. I liked the way how everything was organized and well written. You can tell she spent time writing each of her blog posts. I could easily read everything without any distractions in the background. I also, liked her widgets on the sidebar, I thought it fit in with her blog. She even, had links to music which, I thought was really cool! Lastly, I liked the theme of her blog, I thought it was very creative.

Here’s a link to Cristina’s blog:

http://cristinag423.edublogs.org/

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What makes a great family is communication. I think that communication is the most important thing to become a great family. I think this because, if you don’t communicate people won’t know what’s wrong with you and they can’t help you because you’re not communicating. If you do communicate, it helps you bring your family closer together. And, helps you have a stronger bond with each other.

Another thing that makes a great family is, trust. If you don’t trust your family, there would be a lot of arguments and fighting all the time. We all need somebody in our lives to rely on and talk to, and in order to do that you need to trust that person. Trusting someone to me is very hard to do because you never know what that person will say to others behind you back. One thing for sure is, I know I can always trust my family no matter what and so can you.

Respect is also a key to make a great family. If you respect someone, they will treat you the same. Respecting your parents is especially important. If you respect your family you will show them how much you appreciate them. You also will take care of there belongings and leave there personal stuff alone, and they will do the same for you.

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21 ways to make a great family: http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/2010/10/21-Ways-to-Be-a-Great-Family.aspx

15 ways to make a great family with pictures:

http://www.wikihow.com/Have-a-Good-Family-Life

When I look at images of schools from around the world, I see that everything is very different than my school. For example, the classrooms are different, there are a lot of kids in just one class, and they learn different stuff than we do. When I look at these pictures, I feel sad because they don’t have all the stuff that we have. And on some pictures I feel like they are lucky. For example, in Taiwan they get to have nap time for thirty minutes. I would like to go to school in Taiwan because they get to sleep for thirty minutes every day and then go outside for ten minutes. The statistics at the bottom of the each picture informed  me about the country and the school. For example, in Nigeria the classrooms are filled with a lot of kids, that are all different ages. And then in Germany, the classrooms seemed nice and the kids looked happy.

Happy Blogging! 🙂