I've been thinking long and hard about this ever since I started writing in my own personal blog, Artificial Life, which is the blog you're looking at right now. Writing is an experience. Some people enjoy it and some may not. But I wanted to create something that the people who enjoy it will appreciate.
Since my school already had a website anyway, I thought why not create a school blog? In this post, I will be writing a petition to start the school blog. You see, I love writing. And out of the 1,279 students at my school, I can't be the only one. And I've always wanted to write for a paper, blog, magazine, and other similar things.
Working with people on blogging is on my bucket list, since everyone involved can count it as a unique experience. Searching for experiences to write, is like going on an adventure. You never know at what length a journalist will go to get materials for their writing. And that's what made it fun! Not only do they have more experience because of it, they could share it with the world. How exciting! So, my purpose today is to propose an idea for you, my school. While also attempting to convince you to create a school blog and let the students who willingly participates write whatever they had in mind.
To convince you, I have some factors that strongly support this idea.
The first one is that it could be big. This school blog could be the next thing that could rule the school. Not only does it force literacy onto our school, as we are all lacking right now, it's also a place where students from any class can share information. For instance, if an extracurricular club have a spot open to join, they could post a sign up poster with announcements on an online bulletin board. Instead of having to go class-to-class, it's not really convenient. By adding a call-to-action in a sign up poster, students who are interested in joining can immediately contact the student in charge.
The second argument is that our school already has a Journalism club. So, the Journalism club members can run and manage the site, there's no need to hire any more people from outside. And it's practical, since there are three divisions in that club, which is editorial, design, and photography divisions, it's already a complete pack. The editorial members can write the official school article, the designers can make the site look easier for the eye and make infographics to make the articles looked approachable, and the photographers can shoot photos for the article itself. With just the entirety of the Journalism club, the future school blog will basically ran itself. I, myself, didn't get a chance to sign up for my school's Journalism club. But I know some very intelligent and diligent people there, and I have this feeling that they could easily create something as big as this project.
The third argument is pretty simple, the writers need a space to write on. I consider myself a writer, because I'm happy when I write, and I know some other students felt the same way about writing as I did. You can't create many articulate students if you stop them from speaking their mind, can you? It's the same with writing and most of the things that existed. Writing takes time, and you have to be able to practice it daily or weekly if you want to be better at it. No one can magically be a professional writer just by looking at the Alphabet, even if someone is talented at it, they still have to sharpen their skills for them to be considered a good writer. So, by giving students a chance to express themselves, it can possibly create one of our future greatest writers.
Now, moving on to the next part. Some ideas for the blog site that I had in mind, first, is adding an individual author's profile. Each students can sign up with their student ID. There should also be an anonymous mode, where you can sensor out your name, use only initials, or use a pen name to publish an article. Freedom is the key to good writing. We should support any type of writing in the blog site. Which is also another great feature idea, is to add category options when publishing a post, so readers can sort out the post by their categories, whether its about talk of literature, studies, experience, art, and everything.
Forums can also be convenient, because forums can make discussion in large groups very easily done. There should be option to open a discussion, make a discussion only viewable for certain users, and make it available for approved individual to create a custom html forum for purposes like a Q&A section (I'm taking a reference of Miss-Know-It-All from Dork Diaries).
Other than forums, we can't forget about an online bulletin board. Like I said earlier in the first argument, an online bulletin board is like a news flash post where stuff that get posted there lasts only for a period of time. Taking the same example yet again, when an extracurricular club created a post for a sign up to their club, they might want to archive that post after the member quota has reached its limits. So it's sort of like a temporary announcement section. Also similar to the real old school bulletin board where a bunch of announcement posters can be put up with pins and can also be taken out when it's not necessary anymore.
Another interesting idea, is to add extracurricular club profiles. Where each club can share their activities, and the club members can join the club in the blog site and add updates on behalf of the club too.
A blogging site is a very versatile thing, so you can use it for anything you'd like. There's still so much more interesting ideas out there, so why stop at my suggestions.
That's all I had for this week's article, I'm continuously planning one post after the other, and I know last week's blog is a bit early but the art expo event that I wrote about that day is the same day as when I posted it. Also a quick reminder, next week will be the start of the second arc in Laney's Guerilla Art Project, and for you who didn't tune in my previous blogs, I started a Guerilla Art project where I put out random art in my school, and write documentaries about it. So, if you're curious of the next street art project I'm going to do stay tuned to find out! Lane's out.
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