STEP Product Summary

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Robert Westervelt III

Running Start Student

S.T.E.P Project
Step Project Summary
Research

Research proved to be much harder then was expected for the project. I expected to able to go on line find any blog creator and just post my thoughts there, but that was proved wrong in the first hour of searching. As I went from Blog to Blog, I realized that there were many ways to go about creating a quality product. I some of the blogs that I used for research were about either baseball (U.S.S. Mariner) or about hiking and biking long distances, both topics that interest me. I figured that I would get more out of my research I i studied using subjects that greatly interested myself, and I would find that to be correct. Other things that I researched were background info for my posts so that I could make informative posts that people would take seriously. The rest of my time was used to research how to troubleshoot problems that I encountered in the process.

Overview of Product Hours

The majority of my time spent on this product was spent working on three tasks: Research on my posts, Posting and, troubleshooting the problems that I encountered along the way. I spent roughly 5 hours researching how to make my blog as good as possible for a beginner Blogger. This included searching the web for critically acclaimed blog makers and image hosts, which were important due to the fact that in order to tell my thoughts on my blog i needed to also show them what I meant. Roughly 12 hours was spent actually posting my thoughts and editing them for spelling and punctuation errors. I made sure that my posts would be interesting to read and be both humorous and thought provoking at the same time. Finally about 7 hours were spent troubleshooting problems that I encountered while completing the step product. This included searching the internet for solutions to my ever frequent issues with image hosting and also included a trip Best Buy in order to purchase a new hard drive so my system performance would increase and at the same time so would the quality of my blog.

Challenges That Were Faced

There were many annoying and tedious problems that I need to fix before I could say that my blog was suitable for presentation at the S.T.E.P. Product fair. These include the Image host problems that i talk about on my blog, which prohibited me from adding any pictures to my blog, thus making seem to have a drab feel to it. In order to correct this, I searched the web looking for and researching alternate image hosts for a quite a bit of time before I finally found one that was suitable for my blog requirements. Another problem that occurred while producing my product was the lack of time. Since I was taking college classes at Green River Community College in the running start program, I found it difficult to update the blog as often as I would have preferred. The final problem that I encountered was the lack of system performance with the machine that I was using to create my blog. The problems affected my work speed to the point that I had to go out and upgrade my computer in order to remedy it. If I had been unable to correct these problems, then they could have proved to been lethal to my efforts to making a quality blog.