Weblogs and Wikis Week One 2011
Your part is to register with some social services and with our weblog, The Daybook; to do some reading and some viewing of videos; and to start responding to those materials on your own weblog, tagging them en3177 so they can be found by others; and start to locate and link up with others (in this class and out) who share your interests. My part is to seed the resources, help you get registered on the Daybook, and to set up aggregators that will locate your tagged materials and post them to the Daybook.
Expect to get set up with a blog, bookmarking, and tagging on your own. When in doubt, read up using a search on Google, check The Daybook, and Twitter.
In class
- introductions
- Demonstration
- Pattern: aggregate, annotate/remix, repurpose, feed forward
- rss feeds, personal learning environments
Set Up Activities
- Set up a weblog at WordPress, blogger.com, Tumblr, or Posterous. Email the url of your blog to mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu. (Go to your weblog, then select File > Mail Link to This Page to me). Make at least one blog post using the tag en3177. Anything you publish using the tag en3177 will be aggregated on The Daybook.
- Sign up with Delicious, or Diigo, or Pinboard. Email your address me. Start bookmarking your movements and tagging what you find with en3177.
- Sign up with Twitter. Follow http://twitter.com/weblogsandwikis, and start to follow each other. Tag tweets of interest to us with #en3177 so they can be searched for. The twitter feed might not be aggregated on the Daybook (I'm checking on this), but we'll see it in our twitter streams.
- Submit materials, questions, your work, to the class by using the tag en3177. Keep up with the class by visiting The Daybook, your own weblog, and by checking twitter. When you see something that interests you on The Daybook, comment on it. The comment will take you to the poster's blog.
- You can also follow RSS feeds by using Google Reader. Go to www.google.com/reader to get started. Subscribe to the feeds you want. Check it daily, or you can set Reader to email you updates daily.
- Q and A to The Daybook.
- Next: Set up on the wiki.
Required Activities
As you work through getting set up, be annotating, remixing, repurposing, and sharing what you're doing. Post on your blog your accounts of your work: others can learn from them. Post to Twitter when you make a new blog post. Read posts on The Daybook, follow the links, and comment on the posts of others to trade ideas and information.Suggested Activities
Make a video showing how to sign up with Twitter or a social bookmarking site and let everyone know it's there. (Or locate a good, helpful vid on the same and share it on Twitter.) Write a tutorial on choosing a good weblog title. In a blog post, audio post, or video post, reflect on what it means for you, right now, to try to get things linked up. Create a diagram or map of how the interrelated parts of your developing network are connected using drawing software or pen and paper and scanning it. (see Bookmarking topology c Dec 2010 #PLENK2010Notes
- RSS feeds from Posterous don't appear work with tags. Provide the RSS feed and everything you post to Posterous will be syndicated to the Daybook.
- Tags on Blogger are called labels.
- I'm setting up Google to create a bundle. You can subscribe to the bundle or I can email it to you daily.
- Set up your weblog, then make a post to it using the tag en3177 in the tag field. The subscription used on my end will look like this: http://mcmorgan.org/blog/?feed=rss2&tag=en3177.
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