Setting Up Your Web Blog
Things to consider:
- in most cases, you'd need to figure out which blog provider to use: in this case, I've chosen Blogger.com for this blog project.
- what you're going to name your blog.
- how you will describe your blog.
- where it you will have it hosted. For this project, I'd recommend using Blog*Spot. You register for blogspot when you register on blogger.
Things to Do:
- When you register with blogspot, you create your blog address (for instance longliverock.blogspot.com) Usually, the blogspot address matches the blog title, but it doesn't have to. Be prepared to create an address that you can remember and find easy to type.
- Return to blogger , and log in using your username and password.
Make a few postings to get things running and get used to blogging.
- Email me your blog address on blogspot: Go to your blog, then copy the url into an email message addressed to [K.Heenan@asu.edu]. I'll add it to the blog roll.
- 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.
- There's a short list of selected blogs here.
- Try a search on Google for blogs, go here for various blog searcing possibilities
- Make a few postings over the week. 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.
- Go go blogger and have a look at how templates work, how to edit posts, and the like. Change the name and description of your blog if you wish. You're trying to get a sense of what's possible and what's available. Don't worry: you can't break anything.
- Try linking to the sites or stories you're commenting on - just to practice linking.
- See if you can set up a blog roll. Check the template feature at Blogger.
Some preliminary writing and reading:
For the week of 9/7:
- Make daily entires on your blog for a week. You can post once a day or periodically during the day.
- Visit at least 3 blogs outside of the class during the week, read them, and comment on what the authors are doing in their blogs. Link to the entries you're commenting on.
- As with everything, try not to make hasty generalizations about issues, and don’t be offensive to people or groups!
- Add links and use them well. Don’t type out the address – make the words describing the link be the link.
- Don't plagarize, and attribute what you "borrow."
