For my project I started a blog on bioarchaeology and my experiences in the field of archaeology and physical anthropology. In a couple of my blog posts I talked about what I do on campus to get more involved in the bioarchaeology field, and what I was looking to do with my degree in the future.
At first things were going real well, and then I started running out of things to talk about. So I started a segment called “What’s That Bone?” where I used pictures to describe interesting bones that I have encountered in the lab.I talked about the sphenoid, verts, the pelvic girdle, etc. These posts were really informational, but more personal experience. For example, I mentioned how a certain bone can be really hard to identify, or how I remember which bone is which.
I also was able to do a couple interviews, one with a faculty member, and another with another undergraduate student who will be graduating next year. This provided insight about the field from other people.
I didn’t get an overwhelming amount of page views, but I did get two comments. I think it might have been more helpful if I worked with other classmates to promote my blog. I also didn’t know how significant the “tags” were until halfway through my blog, so that also could have helped. The people who did see it however – including my anthropology friends – told me that it was interesting and my blogs did bring up some discussion about what to do for graduate school if one if interested in studying bioarchaeology and physical anthropology.
If I could do this again, I think I would try to get more interviews and maybe feature more multi-media about bioarchaeology on the blog. But, for never really doing a blog like this before, I think I did pretty well. I’m going to try to keep up with it over the summer and into next year, so we’ll see how that goes.
http://excavatingbioarchaeology.blogspot.com/