Basic+reflection+option

Join and go to the "How am I doing?" communitiy in [|Youth Voices] or the [|Personal Learning Space]. Once you are in that community, find the **Community Blog** to the right, then click **Post a New Entry** and write a self-assessment about your progress as a Youth Voices or Personal Learning Space blogger. //(Please make the Access Restriction:// Community: How am I doing?)
 * 1) **What makes for a really good blog post -- one that others want to read and respond to?**
 * Is it something you care about? Is it about something important?
 * Is there enough writing? Is there too much? What keeps the reader reading?
 * Is there an image? How does this help the reader?
 * Are there snippets or quotations, and are they interesting? Do they give the reader useful information?
 * Is there a podcast? What does it add to the post?
 * 1) **What did you do this week -- or since you last wrote about your blogging?**
 * Tell stories about what has been happening to you in Youth Voices.
 * What has been surprising, too easy, too hard, cool, boring or whatever! Tell us about it.
 * What have you been posting about?
 * How close are your posts to being "really good" -- as defined above?
 * How many times have you commented? Have others commented on your posts?
 * Have you added any friends? Has anybody added you?
 * 1) **What do you hope to do next week on your blog?**
 * What do you wish you could do on Youth Voices that you don't know how to do yet?
 * What do you want to do again?
 * What are you learning about yourself, others, and the world on Youth Voices?
 * 1) **What's the difference between...**
 * writing on paper and blogging?
 * MySpace and YouthVoices.net?