When writing my edutainment blog post, I found myself creating most of the content independent of the schema. Instead, I used some of the examples provided by the group presentation to figure out how I wanted to present my information beforehand. After writing most of it, I then went in and assigned elements to each part of my post. This is where I found the schema to be the most useful, since it pointed out some useful pieces of information that I might have missed otherwise. However, for the majority of my post, I felt that the schema was not terribly useful. I felt that I spent extra time labeling elements afterwards which did not result in any changes to how I word things or how I organize ideas. Because of this, I believe it was a great idea making the schema very fluid with many optional elements. I felt the way the schema was made did not significantly constrain my writing.
Nevertheless, there are some changes that I would suggest, or at least discuss, for the schema. I think I would have liked to see more optional elements related to the background section. I personally had trouble starting my blog, so a more defined or structured beginning elements might have been helpful in this case. Similarly, I had almost as much trouble concluding my post. Specifically, I was not sure how to properly condense everything and how much detail I should put in my summary. Also, I felt that it would be useful to add a suggested section header or some sort of visual divider between the conclusion and the sources. This is because I feel that the sources section would be pretty similar for everyone. Finally, the last change I can think of is to eliminate the specific topic element. Personally, I felt that I never really needed to use the specific topic element, and I found it very similar to the technical principle element. In fact, looking at the schema now, the specific topic element is even defined as a “specific technical principle” which may mean it could be slightly redundant.
