Week Two: Entering the Blogosphere
This week will focus on preparing you to blog throught the first major assignment: the mission statement.
- Monday:
- Quizercise #2: Corder & Mike Davidson's "Five Senetences"
- Blog assignments
- Introduce mission statement assignment
- Homework:
- Read (for Thursday): Coursepack, George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant
- Find, read, and tag to del.icio.us (for Wednesday): three quality sites related to your topic
- Wednesday:
- Create Blogger account and visit your new site
- Create Drupal account for common 106 site, introduce wiki and chatbox features
- Visit Technorati
- Dreamweaver tutorial for basic HTML:
- <p>, <h>, <ul> & <li>, <blockquote>, <br />, <cite>, <em>, <strong>, and <a>
- Post a personal intro (five sentences) to your new blog
- Homework
- Read: Coursepack, George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant
- Find, read, and tag to del.icio.us: three more quality sites for your topic
- Thursday:
- Quizercise 3: Lakoff and frames
- Discuss: Lakoff, language, and binary opposition
- Discuss: Blogging
- Homework
- Major Assignment: Meet with your fellow bloggers (either f2f or online) to complete your mission statement and finalize your blogroll
- Read: Coursepack, Michael Lopp, "Weblog Writing"
- Read: Coursepack, Michael Arringtion, "What is the Definition of a Blog?"
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Discuss mission statement, make sure books have been purchased, troubleshoot blogging and del.icio.us questions
