How To Set Up Your Class Blog Page
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TASK 1 Writing An Article
Please work with a partner, sharing one computer.

1.  Together The Two Of You Are to Watch the Two (2) Videos On The Home Page
Headphones are helpful

With One of You In the Drivers Seat and The Other The Navigator.....

2. Visit the Drivers Blog and Log In

3. Write An Article Explaining What You Know About Blogs and How They Might Help You In Your Own Learning. You can help one another. The Navigator checks for capital letters, fullstops, spelling mistakes and that the writing makes sense. You can discuss your ideas and what the article might say.

Now Swap Seats. 

4. Log In To the New Driver's Blog
5. Write Another Article Inviting People To Visit This Blog.  Discuss Your Ideas. What Reasons Can You Share For Why Students and Classes Should Visit Your Blog....
  • Why is your blog going to be interesting? 
  • What will you be posting about? 
  • What could they learn from reading your blog?
You can help one another. The Navigator checks for capital letters, fullstops, spelling mistakes and that the writing makes sense. You can discuss your ideas and what the article might say.


TASK 2: Shorten Your Blog URL


Your class blog address (the URL) is long and can be hard to remember.

On the web there are tools to help us shorten these long URLs making it easier for us to share them

TinyURL is one of these tools. You can find this at http://tinyurl.com 
Bit.ly is another and can be found at http://bit.ly 

i.e. Take Your Address From
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=76585
To The Much Easier To Remember
http://tinyurl.com/lwatchorn



TASK 3: Blogging Rules

Do We Need To Have Some Class Blog Rules? Why? Why Not?
In this task you will need to think about this question. 
If there are rules, what should they be?

1. Watch The Video At http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/blogs/ and then take the Quiz.

2. Consider Each Of the Rules In The Examples Below

2. Which Rules Would Be Good To Have In Our Class?
You will need a pad and pen for this task

3. Write an Article To Share Your Thinking. 
  • What Blog Rules Do You Want To Have In Your Class? 
  • Invite comments and new ideas from your readers