Blogging+Assignment

Instructions:
1. Set up a professional blog in Blogger or WordPress 2. Begin to follow the criteria about Content and Design 3. Create and and publish your first post. 4. Post your blog site on the Blog Roll page. Due Friday September 24 5. View blogs on the Blog Roll page and comment on three blogs from your classmates before next class.
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Other blog sites you can use?

Megan just recommended tumblr as a blogging site. Feel free to try out and use tumblr!

1. If you have never blogged before or if you are developing confidence with technology use Blogger 2. There is a lot develop and edit on a blog. Do not expect to get all the design and content completed quickly. 3. Type your first post somewhere else. Strip it of its formatting then copy and paste it into your blog post. 4. If you are trying to post your blog and someone else is currently on the page. Create your own page, label it with your name and post your blog link there. 5. Don't try and look at thirty blogs in the next few days. Select just a few blogs from your classmates and comment on them.
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Criteria For Your Blog
Eventually as in not immediately but by the end of term your blog should reflect the following criteria.

• Effective design principles for creating a blog and sustaining viewer engagement. • Weekly, scholarly reflections/responses of course activities, readings, and presentations. • Reflections about ICT concepts, or the learning possibilities with various digital tools. • Frequent evidence of an analysis of key educational articles, media, and/or blog posts from other educational bloggers; • Interaction with other members of the class regarding ICT ideas sharing and review of discovered resources and/or tools; and,thoughtful, critical reflection of the use of technology (through ongoing experimentation) in your personal or professional context. • Links to other relevant blogs or websites. • Links to digital artefacts (lesson plans, multimedia files) that you and others have created.

**Setting Up A Blog**
__** Blogger **__ Create a A Blog With Blogger (Easiest blog) Instructions for setting up a blog on Blogger Instructions for creating a post in Blogger Written instructions for setting up a blog with Blogger.

__** Word Press **__ Create a blog in With Word Press Instructions for setting up a blog in WordPress Create a post in WordPress Working with Word Press A Detailed Document