My Blog for Myth and Folklore

So this tech tip has been plaguing me for awhile. For some mysterious reason, I couldn't post comments from my laptop. I tried using different browsers, I tried clearing my cookies, I tried clearing my cache, I even tried adding a different account to my blogger to see if that would work. Nothing did. Finally, I admitted defeat and just began typing up my comments and emailing them to myself so I could post them on a different computer while I was on campus. It was annoying but it worked. Today, I happened to notice that my Privacy Badger ad-blocker was blocking Blogger.com. I checked and my Ghostry blocker was doing the same thing. Once I turned it off Ghostry and Badger I was immediately able to post comments. I have told Ghostry to trust the Blogger site and I taught my Badger not to block it either. I really like Privacy Badger especially, because it is local only to your computer so you can teach it to act in the way you want it to. It is still blocking other things o...

I feel pretty good about my progress so far. I only missed one assignment and I have made up for it and then some with extra credit so I still have over a perfect score in the class. My goal is to do all of the assignments from now on and to potentially work on some extra credits if I have time, just in case things get busy and I forget something. I am pretty happy with how things have been going and with my schedule. I really like reading and I have enjoyed writing stories as well. I am most proud of my project which has been difficult because of the verse which I am not naturally good at. I have been able to work most on this class on the weekends when I have lots of time and that has been working well. Blogging was difficult at first, I kept forgetting things and I would have to go back and update my posts. I think I have a better handle on it now. Blogger is pretty straightforward and makes it easy. I still am not completely satisfied with my website but I plan on messing aroun...

I have gotten lots of comments on my blog. Some of them are simply friendly and conversational, others are critiques of my work. I find all types of comments useful but I have especially found the comments on my project to be helpful. The conversational comments help me to feel like I did things right and that I should keep doing things in a similar way. The ones that critique my writing help me to see my errors and correct them. The comments I have gotten on my project are the most useful to me since I am still working on my project and can change things during my revisions. I hope I am leaving good feedback for my classmates. For the shorter comments, I try to keep the tone friendly and conversational, while also being helpful, especially for their story posts. For the longer feedback comments, I try to give advice in a useful but also friendly manner. I like to point out things I like first and end on a good note while inserting critiques in the middle. I also try to make sure the...

Taking a break this week has been really nice and I have enjoyed looking over my stories and my reading notes. I especially like my stories. I took a while to think of exactly what I wanted to write about before I began my stories and I still like what I ended up with. I especially like the pictures I have chosen for my stories and my reading notes. I wish I could use them for other things as well. I really liked the theme of my blog. It is simplistic but easy to follow, however, I changed the accent colors from orange to teal. I don't really like orange and since I am an OU student I thought it was best to get rid of it! I also added my name to my project site so that, in case people forget whose project they clicked on, they won't have to search too hard to find my name. I am pretty unfamiliar with the project site so I imagine I will play around with it some more as we continue. I like the way mine looks but there are still some things I want to tweak here and there. I ...