Ok, first by way of explanation, this is a blog that I created about three years ago and I've decided not to eliminate the previous posts because they are a part of mine and a few other people's (Susie, Paula) history.
I've viewed a few of the blogs created for this programme and they're all pretty good. I think that we should all be careful (myself included) with font size and colour, and the colours used on our blogs.
Remember a lot of struggling readers have difficulty with too small type or dark-on-dark (or light-on-light) font and background. The first thing you learn with remedial students is bigger font is always better (for them, remember!)
Anyway that's it and hope I get some posts here. Thanks!
2 comments:
I appreciate the constructive feedback on how to improve/maximize the blogging experience. I do agree with you that it is easy to overlook font size and not take colour into consideration. However we must also be mindful to consider that we need to motivate our struggling readers, capture their interests and get them to participate as much as possible, so we should ensure that our blogs are aestically pleasing.
Looking forward to reading and sharing ideas.
TEACHING INTERNET WRITING PROTOCOL By Abigale Singh
Hi Darrell! I agree with you in that the physical appearance of the blog influences readability and is therefore a critical consideration. As future reading specialists, struggling readers are a major concern for us. We therefore need to be concerned with their comfort. As such, I agree that the small things such as font size and colour need to be treated with precision. After all, if students are frustrated just by looking at the blog space, then this would hinder literacy and learning instead.
I just would like to add though that if we take the time to teach our students writing protocol for the internet, from an early stage, then such issues can possibly be avoided. In this way, students will be sensitized to the differences between writing on paper and on the internet. Issues such as shorter paragraph lengths, the need for left alignment and careful contrast in terms of colour of background and font as well as font size to facilitate easy reading can be highlighted.
Notably, such features also impact upon the credibility of a website. Thus, teaching internet writing protocol also prepares students to evaluate the good, the bad and the ugly of the worldwide web. Therefore, I think it definitely pays to teach our students these little things from inception because they are in fact very powerful.
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