Review of David's Blog

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My first blog goes to my own review of David's blog. 

For your convenience, here is the link to his blog https://teflgeek.net/.

Organization of Layout

David likes to insert all kinds of colorful pictures in his blog, which makes his blog really attractive! And in most pieces, his uses subtitles to better organize the content. But in certain pieces me and my group members do not figure out what the picture represents linked to the content.

Content and Features

To be honest, I am not quite sure about the major theme of David's blog. The blog writes about so many topics and it even includes a book review. So the blog might seem arbitrary to some extent. But for specific content in each piece, I want to say that it is useful for daily teaching for it incorporates lots of pedagogical thoughts. The author also capitalized on multimodal resources such as Youtube videos as auxiliary, which is apparently a wise choice.

Ease of use and Navigation

The blog in a whole is easy to use and navigation for the very concrete title of each blog. Therefore, readers can quickly navigate related topic such as speaking teaching, grammar teaching and how to give classroom feedback. 

Target Audience

The blog seems to be designed specifically for English language teachers as the blogger introduces many useful teaching methodologies and novel classroom activities.

The above is my general review of David's blog. Any of your comment is welcome!👂👂

Comments

  1. Botan26 January 2023 at 13:38

    This is a good blog that does a good job of reviewing David's Blog in terms of Layout and content etc.

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  2. Kailin ICT journey26 January 2023 at 18:39

    Hi Yu Yue, I like your blog's word colour, and your review of David's blog is quite interesting. After reading your comments about how David used pictures to decorate his blog, I have to reflect on my blog, too. LOL, since I use a photo that doesn't relate to my topic, it is only for relaxing and sharing a beautiful picture.

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