Setting Up a Weblog, part 1
For Monday
Before we meet again, take some time to get used to using a blog.- Return to blogger (http://www.blogger.com), and log in to your blog using your username and password.
- Make a few postings over the weekend to get things running and get used to blogging. Watch for moments and reasons and opportunities to post. It's ok to post more than once a day. Postings don't need to be long.
- Read Yang, chaps 1 - 4, and chap 5: Finding blogs.
- Read Blood, chap 1: What Bloggers do
- Email me your blog address on blogspot: Go to your blog, then copy the url into an email message addressed to mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu. I'll add it to the blog roll.
- I'll be sending you email invitation to join the collective Daybook blog for this course. Respond to that invitation and you'll be registered on the Daybook. Once you're registered, the Daybook blog will appear on your page when you visit Blogger. It will also appear in a menu on your blogging page.
for Wednesday - Friday
Once you're registered on the Daybook, post your blog address to the Daybook announcing that your blog is ready for visitors.Start posting at least once a day - on whatever you wish.
Read Blood, chaps 2 and 3, and review chap 1, to get a sense of what bloggers do, and why. Comment on these chapters on your blog.
Have a look at some blogs to see what bloggers write about - and how they write about it. Post your comments and observations to your blog and link to the blog you're commenting on.
- One way to do this is to use the Next Blog button at the top of your own blog - just to get a sense of what's out there.
- There's a list of recently updated and interesting blogs on blogger.
- Get a background on blogging. See what other bloggers are doing: Search Google for blogs on a topic of interest: http://blogsearch.google.com/
- Look at some blogs on the Daybook blog.
- Visit http://www.weblogs.com/ for recently updated blogs.
- There's a list of selected blogs and places to find blogs on the BlogSites page.
- Visit the Daybook Blog for this course: http://blogsandwikisdaybook.blogspot.com. I've been listing some blogs I run into on the Daybook.
- Check Yang for some blog addresses.
Link to the sites or stories you're commenting on - to practice linking. Refer to Yang and Blood, Appendix II on how to create links and advice on writing linktext.
Problems? Visit the CAL Computer Classroom during open access times. Talk to me. Talk to others in the class.
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