For those of you still working on getting your blog built and your first post posted, check in with me if you're having trouble. I'd like to get your blog on the list ASAP so you can start getting feedback from the class.
Also: don't forget to PROOFREAD (I'm seeing way, way too many simple mistakes such as plurals vs. possessives, missing apostrophes in contractions, spelling, run-on sentences, etc.) — use the Mechanics Handout in the sidebar and/or your handy APA Style Manual (or the dictionary or any other grammar reference) and get those posts tidied up!
For this week, I've got some reading for you, and I'd like you to keep going with your blogs (details below). My internet access is a little sketchy for the next few days while I'm at a conference, but I'll be checking in as much as I can.
See you next week!
HOMEWORK:
- Read this article on community building by Craig Newmark (founder of craigslist)
- Check out this article/chart of the life-cycle of a blog post
- Write and post another blog entry (with at least 3 links and an image/video/audio)
- Read the 5 blogs under your name on the list and post a comment to each. Comments should include thoughtful feedback on the post and also on the blog itself (any helpful suggestions for the author?) and at least one link. (No image/video; Blogger doesn't allow these in comments.) If you aren't on the blogroll yet, pick any 5 blogs to comment on.
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5 comments:
Hi professor. This is Josh Muller. I sent you an email with the url to my blog but it doesn't look like you got it so here is the link. Josh's top ten .
The homework requires us to have 3 links but I'm not sure how best to integrate them into my blog... It's not like a commentary blog or a gossip column, it's a sci-fi series. It is like trying to do product placement in a western... awkward and out of place, like a cowboy sporting NIKE.
Hi JiratuX,
Good point about a fiction blog being different from other kinds of informative blogs — you can still use links, though! Many online fiction writers use links to let readers move through their story world in a nonlinear way (sometimes called hyperfiction or interactive fiction). You could experiment with placing links in your story that lead to other blog posts or characters or images — for example, you might choose a word in your Unfitting Revenge post that links to a post in Blood Catalyst. Try it out and see how you like it!
Here is Grant's blog for this week. However, I'm a little confused about the fourth step of the assignment on the main page on Blogspot.
Hopefully it works this time around. Blog
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