Blog Instructions

Blog Instructions

A blog or web log is a personal web site made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically. The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly from links and commentary about other web sites to observations about news or politics, diaries, photos, poetry, essays, project updates, even fiction. Blogs are a fast growing segment of the web. An article in the August 26, 2002 Newsweek estimated the number of blogs at 500,000 with a new one coming online every forty seconds.

We have a class blog! As indicated in the syllabus, I will post something to the blog most weeks. I will ask you to comment on it – similar to how I ask you to comment on something in class. However, your response will be in text. Responses do not have to be lengthy – but I encourage you to be thoughtful about what you write so that you are awarded the maximum points. ‘Thoughtful’ means that you consider what is being commented about in light of the reading, class discussion, etcetera. Also, I encourage you to check back to the blog after you have left your comment so that you can see what your classmates think.

The blog, then, should be thought of as an ongoing class discussion… and for those of you who are a little shy this will be away for you to increase your participation. Also, some people do their best thinking in writing…

Instructions:

1) click on the link to the blog: http://identityandglobalization.blogspot.com/
2) Posts appear in chronological order but they are archived in the sidebar.
3) Read the blog and from the main page, click the Comment link under the post on which you want to comment. On an individual post page, scroll down to the end of the post if necessary.
4) You can choose to sign-in and create a blogger account and profile (you will need a name and email address to do this)… If you choose to do this but are not comfortable with having your real name out there in blogger world, you can create a ‘name’ for yourself. Obviously you will have to let me know what your screen name is…
5) You can also leave posts anonymously, but you will have to identify yourself in the body of your comment so that I know who you are
6) You will need to post at least one comment in response to a blog.
7) The blog is public for now. However, if there are a lot of comments from people not in the class which are not appropriate, I can make the blog private (i.e. only the class will be able to access the blog).
8) If there are any inappropriate class comments I can delete the comment.. and I can also make the blog so that I moderate the comments before they’re posted (I’d much prefer not to do this.. so keep it clean and respectful…)
9) You should check the blog regularly – at least twice week.
10) Finally, thanks to tracking software I can see how often your computer is logged into the blog, and for how long!
11) Any questions? please let me know.