Webby blogging assignment

We went over this today in class, but I’ll write it out just in case…

By the way, as announced today, we will NOT meet as a class this coming Friday (April 15). I have to attend a funeral in S.C.

I divided you up today into teams for this assignment. You are to do your own assignment independently, but the team idea is for you to receive guidance, technical support and constructive feedback on your blog post, so that you can rewrite or improve it BEFORE you send your blog post link to me for my assessment.

Everyone needs an editor. Take advantage of your teammate(s)!

Here are the teams:

Team 1: Miohn, Brad and Jack

Team 2: Rod and Cameron and Josh

Team 3: Trevor and Caelan

Team 4: Kayla, Ashleigh and Brodyn

Team 5: Dre, Susan and Chris

Team 6: Raven, Kevin and Alexandria


Next, see my blog post from April 12, 2016, titled “Critical questions about the Internet”

Today in our class each one of you selected TWO numbers. You wrote down your TWO numbers on a piece of paper and handed in that paper to me. (You also made a copy of the two numbers you selected)

The two numbers you selected correspond to the numbered items on my list of 15 critical Internet issues in my April 12th blog post.

Example: If you selected numbers 1 and 8, your potential topics that you can blog about would consist of number 1 on my list (online dating websites) and number 8 on my list (Net neutrality).

You are to focus, for this blogging assignment, on ONLY ONE of the numbers you selected.

Here are the numbers each person in our class selected:

Chris, 13 and 6

Kevin, 3 and 7

Rod, 1 and 2

Miohn, 7 and 13

Kayla, 7 and 13

Caelan, 8 and 13

Dre, 13 and 3

Brodyn, 5 and 15

Cameron, 7 and 12

Brad, 5 and 8

Susan, 7 and 12

Ali, 7 and 13

Ashleigh, 2 and 13

Jack, 8 and 9

Note: If you were not in our class today, you may select two numbers from my list that were not selected by anyone else OR that were rarely selected by anyone.

Also, even if you were in our class today, I’ll give you a little wiggle room on the number selection. No one selected the following numbers: 4, 10, 11, 14. If any of you want to choose one of the above unselected numbers for your blog post, I am fine with that.


Again, you are to focus, for this blogging assignment, on ONLY ONE of the numbers you selected from my list of 15 critical Internet issues.

Guidelines:

Create a blog—if you don’t already have one. You can create a blog acccount at blogger.com or at tumblr.com or at other places on the Internet.

Write a blog post about ONE of your selected numbers from my list of 15 critical Internet topics.

Within your blog post, cite information (quotes or paraphrases) that you obtained in an in-person interview about your selected topic. The person you choose to interview is up to you, but try to find someone willing to talk to you and who would be at least somewhat informed on the selected topic. In your blog post, mention the interviewee’s name, age, occupation and hometown (if not a student). If a student, include his/her name, age, year in school, major and hometown and home state.

Your blog post will also include information you pull (on your assigned topic) from the Internet. Do this but try to be brief. Summarize or paraphrase what you learned about your topic from the Internet. Be sure to cite the source of information on the Internet (name of website, URL…) DO NOT JUST COPY AND PASTE BIG CHUNKS OF TEXT THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS WRITTEN!!

Your blog post must also have:

—At least one picture (related to your assigned topic).

— Two links (words you can click on that will take you to another website)

—One video (related to your assigned topic)

(See my my April 12 blog post for examples of links, pictures and a video).

When you are done with your blog post, send it to your teammate(s) and ask for their comments and constructive criticism. Do for the same for them when they send their post to you. Then edit and work on your blog post and make it better.

Send your post to a few of your friends or family. Make sure they can open it and have no trouble reading/viewing it. Do the links work? Does what you’ve written make sense? Does the video play? Can you hear the sound?

Send them the guidelines for this assignment. Get their take on whether they think you’re in good shape with your blog post.

When you’re completely satisfied with your blog post, email it to me by the early morning (BEFORE our class) of Wednesday, April 20. My email is: larrytimbs@gmail.com

Good luck!

Oh, by the way, here's a short video about blogging. Enjoy.