An initial rating of your blog: 9-11 out of 20

Just to get the ball rolling on blog improvements, let me give you my initial rating for your blog. Your overall rating is 9-11 out of a possible 20 points.

Content - 3 to 2

for one thing, nowhere in the site did i see a "statement" of purpose as to why your class is doing this blog. What its general content will be, etc.

Interest - 2

There is plenty of information in your blog, and that's exactly the problem. Many posts are just full-text copies from other sites. It actually would help if you just put a link to the site that you are copying from. That way your blog wont look as cluttered. What's important is that you post something that is yours.

Navigation - 4

It's good that you used the ready-made templates from blogger and kept things simple. The necessary links are provided. Navigation becomes a problem only when you are reading one of the very long posts. When you're at the bottom of the post, you'll have to scroll up so far before you can navigate away from the page.

Try to keep your posts short ... in fact, if you just provide the link to the content that you copied, some posts would completely disappear, I think.

Layout - 2 to 1

using different font colors, font sizes is not easy on the eyes. I would think that the different colored fonts would serve to emphasize certain statements in the post ... not the entire post!

What the different colored fonts do is that they distract the reader from the content of your posts making things appear cluttered over-all.