AT 309 Lab 1: Blog Creation

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My name is Matthew Watson, and I am currently a junior majoring in Aviation Management with a minor in UAS. My UAS career actually started my sophomore year. Prior to then, my experience primarily revolved around flying RC copters as a child. Through Purdue University, I have exponentially grown my experience within the UAS industry. I have become 14 CFR Part 107 certified and have gotten to minimally fly drones during the summer of 2020. During my studies for the various UAS courses that I have become enrolled in, I have found an interest within Geospatial Data. In a later course, AT 209, we got to use geospatial data for an actual search and rescue; I found much enjoyment while going through the extensive data set and looking at potential matches to the type of clothing the missing person was wearing when last seen. As far as what my career aspirations are, I would either like to work as a Geospatial Data Analyst or a position within Revenue Management for a major airline.  

The main purpose of this ePortfolio is to outline what is being done within the course of AT 309 and what we do for labs. For the first lab, we created the blog and had to evaluate others from AT 319 during the Spring 2019 semester. Below are the evaluations created.

Ricky Vogel’s blog (https://rvogeluas.blogspot.com/) does a good job on providing a seemless and easy navigation experience. Within each blog post, it appears Ricky goes above and beyond in the amount of content created for each post. The posts themselves deliver a lot of content in terms of figures and explainations for each. My only issue is that the posts themselves appear to heavily rely on the figures, and the written content tends to be a bare minimum and does not seem to be a driving force for the posts. Ricky also includes links to content that is referenced so that viewers can see sources for themselves.

The next blog that was examined was John Cox’s (https://johncox1121.blogspot.com/). Upon first glance, the last lab that was assigned was not completed nor related to what it was about. There is not any contact information regarding how to contact the student or about any history or credibility relating to UAS. The posts themselves on the home page spill out everything within them, rather than giving a small glance for viewers to look into for themselves. There is a couple moments in each post where grammar and wording fumble themselves, but the overall posts tend to lean closer to being grammatically correct. The written content appears to be more extensive than the last blog and supports the figures provided for reference.

Cole Bramel’s blog (https://cbuas.blogspot.com/) does a good job on providing figures and written portions. The home page of the blog provides brief exerpts from the posts themselves rather than spieling out the whole post. The contact information page mentions how to contact the owner, but it does not provide a bio. The posts have structure and make sense, but it appears the last lab did not follow the same structure. By doing this, it can easily confuse the reader about what is trying to be achieved through the post.

Treston Russell’s blog (https://trestonrusselluas.blogspot.com/) continues the issue of posts being completely posted on the home page rather than a small snippet of it. The contact information page again fails to provide a brief bio of the owner, but it definitely shows enough means of communication. As for the posts, they generally do not follow a uniform structure. There are occasions where the “Discussion” and “Conclusion” sections are included, but there is a number of occasions where either one is missing or both are. Gramatically speaking, these posts have a good amount of rough patches where it can be improved.

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