Get a Blog

The blog will be your point of contact for me and your classmates and will be the foundation document for this course. A blog (short for web log) is a user-generated web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. They are look and act like your everyday home page, but have the unique feature of a journal (time and date stamp). An example of where you are headed is my blog. Why Blog? People around us—students, teachers, parents, and the community at large—want to know what we're doing in our work. One of the ways to celebrate the wide variety of positive efforts happening in our classrooms, schools, and meetings is to share that via a blog. The blog replaces the tough to maintain, classroom web sites of yesterday, enabling you to keep colleagues, students, and parents up to date. Blog entries are often short, immediately relevant to events in work settings, and time-sensitive. It is impossible for any one person or office to keep up with all the wonderful things that you are involved in, but you can. You can publish content at will—remember to keep your published items professional

You are required to create a blog post for every assignment that summarizes the assignment, your new learning (if any) and ideas for possible integration for the new learning or technology into your professional life using the following guidelines while attending to these recommendations.

● Keep your blog entries short, positive and informative. Include photos, audio or video whenever possible to illustrate the story you are sharing. ● Think of blogging as a way to answer questions BEFORE they come to you in a phone call or a face to face visit. ● Blog what you know, what is happening so that your writing is based on your experiences. ● Use "I" when writing because people want to "hear" your voice. Sign up for a Blog using Blogger (In Google select My Account to see the available services) Create an introductory post using the blog rubric that covers the activities in this assignment. Set your time zone and preferences in the Settings Tab / Explore various formatting options in the Template Tab Add a gadget. Specifically a link list. Include a link to Google on your link list gadget. Add a link in your link list gadget to Google.com Email me with your at ricpierce@gmail.com with your blog address in the subject line and your Skype contact name in the body.

  1. Add page Element / Link List
  2. Add a hyperlink to Google in the link list

 

 


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