The widget that I chose to add to my sidebar is the calendar widget. The reason I chose this particular widget is because it allows for other people to easily access the most recent posts, and I will always be able to find older posts. I believe that it is very important to keep track of everything that I ever put on the internet, so that is why I selected the calendar widget to keep track of all of my posts.
Through the third week of the blogging challenge, I have learned that images add depth and understanding to a post, but I also must be careful about which images I select. If I was to post an image that might put my family’s safety or identity in danger, that would not be a good situation. However, incorporating images into my blog will add some visual that gives the reader an idea of what I am writing about. All in all, images are an essential part to the meaning of a blog, but I must be very careful about the type of media that I post.
My native language is English, and my favorite thing(s) in all of the world are sports. Although the only sport I play is baseball, I follow and connect with many more. For example, when I want to get outside and just move around, the sport of my choosing is usually basketball. However, if I want to sit lazily on the couch and watch a specific sport, my favorite choice by far would be football. My brother plays soccer, so I practice that sport with him a ton, and I have a couple of friends who take volleyball very seriously. Out of every single sport I have mentioned so far (except volleyball), I could probably say which teams are in first place and which teams are not very good. All in all, sports are my favorite activities to watch, play, and follow.
In order to decorate my blog in the Halloween spirit, I first went to Pixabay to get my custom header. I selected a jack o lantern because Halloween just isn’t the same without pumpkins carved into different faces. For my next decoration, I went over to FG.A.com to find a custom background. I didn’t want to have a pumpkin header and a pumpkin background, so I chose a haunted house with a bat flying around it. To me, Halloween is all about the spooks, scares, and fun, so I figured that a haunted house was the best way to represent that.
Walking down the street
Large pumpkins on each doorstep
Yelling “trick or treat!”
The first step that I take towards celebrating my Halloween is to find a costume that is either very scary or hysterically funny. On the night of October 31, I meet up with many of my friends and we all walk around a neighborhood stopping at every door to grab some candy. After almost two hours of trick or treating, we head back to the house and hang out for another hour or so. We eat a lot of our candy and relax as the night comes to an end. Finally, when I leave to head back to my place, I pack up all of my candy making sure not to leave one single piece behind. Once I arrive back at my house, I get ready to go to bed on a full stomach. All in all, I love it when October rolls around every year.
To display my Halloween creativity, I decided to use a great little website called Popplet. On this website, I can create graphic organizers and presentations that could help me a ton for studying and projects. However, I made a sample slide of an extremely haunted house to show my Halloween spirit. I believe it is amazing how Popplet allows it’s users to create slides with whatever they choose such as words, images, or even pictures drawn themselves. In this slide, I showcased a house that I would not want to run in to when trick or treating on Halloween night. Popplet is an amazing website that can be useful in school or to display creativity.