Group Blog Evaluation

The aim of our blog, Student Realities, was to try and open people's eyes to the realities of student life. One of the most important features of the blog was that we had six people posting at different times of the day, which is one of the advantages of the online platform and something which you wouldn't get in a print publication focusing on the same subject.

There were no real difficulties either in setting up the blog or in posting. The biggest problem was probably finding something to write about every day - because we were covering such a broad subject (the life of a student) it sometimes took a bit of time to decide what exactly to write about, and I think if we had discussed what we were each going to write about before the blog went live the actual posts would have taken a lot less time to write (and the occasional frustration of not knowing what to talk about would have been avoided).

We also could have put a bit more effort into the design of the blog and made it look a bit nicer with more pictures etc, but the problem with posting pictures was that we were all trying to remain anonymous and the pictures could well have given away our identities.