Skills Assessment: blogging
delivery: from the Bb Assignment, send me the URL of your blog by the assignment due date.
For the spring 2009 course, one of your first blog posts should contain:
- Name, some version of
- Course of study
- Day job
- Career plans
- 3 oft-used websites
Start blogging
- Create a new blog on blogger.com. Directions (either in text or in a narrated screencast) for starting a blog can be found on the web2.0 page.
- Blog about your course experience, especially the Final Website project, from a personal, but academic, perspective. Remember that you are a graduate student in a professional school working on a class project. This means you can write “awesome,” perhaps, but should still not write “sucks.” If in doubt, err on the side of professional tone.
- You must blog (create a new blog posting) at least 3 times each week for 2 weeks, for a minimum of 6 posts.
- Your blog posts should include thoughts on at least some of the following:
- Why you are considering and/or discarding certain Final Website topics
- Links to resources you might use in FW
- Ideas for color palettes
- Possible topics and titles for your 4-5 subpages
- Links to good examples of similar websites
- Possible original text for FW
- Possible graphics or sources of graphics
- Challenges you may face
Edit class wiki
We'll do this in class this semester, probably in week 3, so this will not be part of this skills assessment.
Comment on other blogs
Within the first week of this assignment period, you must comment at least once on each other student blog. Your comments must be made using your class Blogger name so that I recognize your authorship. Please be respectful and constructive in your comments—and not too personal (this is the internet after all). To find other student blogs, check our class wiki at: http://profcorse.wikispaces.com/, and click on the “StudentBlogs.”
Assessment
This assignment is worth 5 points of your 100-point course total. You will earn full points by completing the requirements of this assignment and writing at least moderately-interesting blog posts in standard American English.
