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1ST TERM DATES

Hello,
here you have the dates and evaluation activities for the first term.

WEDNESDAY NOV 19th

Deadline for the term report: nov 21st
The report must have the following structure:

• Cover: Title: Blogworkshop - 1st term report. Name and surname, Teacher's name, Month and year, School, city
• Introduction (short explanation about the report)
• Steps o, 1, 2, 3 (reflections and decisions taken in the steps)
• Conclusion (personal opinion about the organization of the workshop, the tasks you've been carrying out and the first draft of your blog. Think about pros and cons.

Layout:
- Times New Roman or Arial Font, size 12
- 1,5 spaced
- 2 pages max.

BLOG PRESENTATIONS LIST

WEDNESDAY NOV 26th

1. Acín, Gerard
2. Adan, Alba
3. Alvarez, Carlos
4. Arteche, Alvaro
5. Asin, Mariona
6. Ballester, Meritxell

WEDNESDAY DEC 3rd

1. Bordas, Pau
2. Delgado, Pedro
3. Esparó, Gal.la
4. Franquesa, Carlota
5. Garcia, Paula
6. Guillen, Cristina
   

WEDNESDAY DEC 10th

1. Juan, Anna
2. Lopez, Elena
3. Marrero, Denise
4. Martí, Laia
5. Mena, Marina
6. Vila, Berta
   

STEP 3: THE FIRST DRAFT

Once you have chosen your topic, you have to prepare an oral presentation in which you will talk about the following points:

1. The steps you have followed
2. What platform hosts your blog and why you chose it
3. What is your topic and why you chose it
4. Contents and structure

STEP 2: CHOOSING A BLOG PLATFORM

As you can see in this video, getting your own blog is something really easy!

But not all the blog platforms offer the same possibilities. Some of them are free while others will charge you some money. Some are more attractive than others or have better tools, and some are easier than others to edit and customise.

Visit the following popular blog platforms and choose the one that suits you better or you like the most.

• http://wordpress.com/
• http://www.movabletype.org/
• https://www.blogger.com/start
• http://www.deadjournal.com/
• http://www.livejournal.com/
• http://www.blogeasy.com/
• http://www.mybloglog.com/

Here you have an interesting list with further detail:

• http://www.pimpmyblog.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8

1. Now think about the pros and cons and choose the platform that suits you better or the one you like the most.

STEP 1: CHOOSING A TOPIC FOR YOUR BLOG

What is your blog about?


To answer this question perhaps it will be useful to read first the following quotation taken from probblogger :

“Probably the best place to start thinking about what your blog should be about is to consider what YOU are about.”

At this point you can start thinking about what your interests, hobbies, passions or energy levels for topics are.

* MUSIC
* VIDEO GAMES
* CARS
* X-TREME SPORTS
* .......ANY IDEA????

Here you have some questions which will help you to pick the right topic.

1. Answer these questions in your Blog Book:

* Are you interested in the topic? Give some reasons
* Is the topic popular?
* Is the topic one that is growing or shrinking?
* Will you have enough content?
* Will the content be useful?

2. Look for some blogs which are related to the topic/s you like and that you find useful.
Then list them in your Blog Book. Use the following searching engines:

* http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wb

* http://www.bloghints.com/

GETTING STARTED

Hello everybody and welcome to this Blog Workshop!




http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTwKLA_cyQ

The aim of this workshop is that you create your own blog, so you should have at least a basic knowldege of how to surf the Internet and also basic computer skills, like the girl in the video.

I hope we will all learn new things and enjoy the process!!

The first thing to do is a bit of a webquest-like questionnaire in order to get to know much better the terminology we’ll be using in this course.

1. Go through some definitions of the term BLOG visiting the following sites:

• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/blog.html
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

Answer these questions in your Blog Book

Were these definitions useful?
Can you add other sites with better ones?

2. Now that we have a better idea of what a blog is, let’s read about blogging history, posts and other related things.

http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/history_of_blogging.asp

• Explain the meaning of the term Blog
• What is blogging?
• Generally speaking, what things do blogs have in common?
• What is a post?
• Can you add some more interesting information? Post it in your Blog Book together with the address
• Here you have some words which have in common the root BLOG. blogger, blogging, blogosphere, blogroll, blogsnob, b-log, klog, vlog What do you know about them?

"I've Been Dooced!"Did You Know... The term dooce means "To lose ones job (fired) because of something you have posted in a blog." Dooce was coined ion 2002 by Heather Armstrong, a Los Angeles Web designer who lost her job after writing about work colleagues in her personal blog, dooce.com.