Passion Project and Guest Speaker

Our passion projects are starting to take shape on our DigCit class. We've uploaded our project proposals to the teacher and we have had the last few weeks to finalize our goals for what we want to have by the end of the year. I have been working hard at thinking of what I want to do because with my topic, I could go in many different directions, but I've decided to go along the lines of a project where I make YouTube videos. The channel will be a place for people to watch my videos and be happy. Once I have a large number of followers, I will initiate phase two. In this step I plan to get people to send me videos or pictures of them doing things to make people happy and by the end of the year, have a compilation of pictures and videos to present to the class in the hopes that people will watch it and be inspired. 

This week in class, we had a professional blogger, Deb Mitchell, talk to us about blogging and how it works in a professional way. She went over how a good blog needs three things to be a successful blog: Purpose, Usefulness, and Empathy. The purpose is the reason you're writing, like who is my audience and what am I writing about? The usefulness speaks for itself. How can your blog be used or how useful is it to others to read? Every blog needs empathy because if the writer doesn't understand what the audience is thinking, then the blog will not feel personal to them. She said that if just one of these three things is absent, then the blog will not be successful and how you need everyone of these. 

Listening to what Mrs. Mitchell had to say about blogging made me think about how I write my blogs. Whenever we are given a blogging assignment by our teacher, she gives us guidelines to follow, but now I realize that blogging is not a chore or just another school assignment. It's a way to project your voice by means that can benefit a lot of people. I plan to use my newfound outlook on blogging to my advantage, telling people how my project is going and getting feedback on what changes need to be made in my project.