Blog presentation review items

2012 Blogging/ Name__________________

Blog reviewed ______________________________________________

1.     History of blog

1          2          3          4          5

2.     Facts of the blog

1          2          3          4          5

3.     Statistics

1          2          3          4          5

4.     Unique

1          2          3          4          5

5.     Strengths

1          2          3          4          5

6.     Weaknesses

1          2          3          4          5

7.     Advice

1          2          3          4          5

Influence and ideas:

   

Time

Blog terms to know

Blog terms:

1. ·       Archive
2. ·       Attribution
3. ·       Blog
4. ·       Blog host
5. ·       Blog marketing
6. ·       Blog post
7. ·       Blog statistics
8. ·       Blogger
9. ·       Blogging software
10. ·       Blogosphere
11. ·       Blogroll
12. ·       Blogspot
13. ·       Browser
14. ·       Comment
15. ·       Comment moderation
16. ·       Contextual advertising
17. ·       Dashboard
18. ·       Domain name
19. ·       Footer
20. ·       Forum
21. ·       FTP
22. ·       Google
23. ·       Guest blogging
24. ·       Header
25. ·       Hit
26. ·       Home page
27. ·       HTML
28. ·       Keyword
29. ·       Label
30. ·       Link
31. ·       Niche
32. ·       Page view
33. ·       Plug
34. ·       Podcast
35. ·       Post
36. ·       Professional blogger
37. ·       Profile
38. ·       RSS
39. ·       Search engine
40. ·       Search engine optimization
41. ·       Sidebar
42. ·       Spam
43. ·       Subscribe
44. ·       Tag
45. ·       Technorati
46. ·       Template
47. ·       URL
48. ·       Visit
49. ·       Wordpress
50. 
    
51. 
    

Tuesday speaker

Our speaker Tuesday will be Alan Smith, of England, who is a guest at UCO  as part of the Passport to England program. 
He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at The University of Northampton and has also taught philosophy and English in a prison. He has written novels, plays and non-fiction. He has written more than 70 articles about prison for The Guardian (one of the world's best newspapers). A selection of his journalism can be viewed at the online edition of the newspaper.
Here's a link to one such article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/15/prison-philosophy-class
Your assignment--300 word report on his comments in class, posted on your blog, by 8 am Thursday Nov. 1.

End of semester schedule

Oct, 
16-18
23-25
30-- Presentations start
Nov.
     1
6-8
13-15 no class International
20
27-29
Dec.
4-6

Two blog assignments

1. From today's comments by Mr. Dave Rhea, post on your blog, by Friday, Oct. 19(100 words minimum):

1. What is the main advice you learned about blogging?
2. How would you improve your blog based on his comments?
3. What was the most interesting part of the discussion?

2. No class Thursday. Attend one of the Media Ethics sessions Wednesday or Thursday. Write a 250-300 word essay. Due, in paper, not email or blog, by Tuesday, Oct. 23. Double spaced. Identify session attended at top of page. Items to consider:

1.  Two sentence summary of subject.
2. What was your main impression of the subject--did you agree or disagree and why?
3. Is there any application to blogging? Why or why not, and what?

Blog adoption guidelines

Blog adoption guidelines for second half of semester:

“We want a sense of what makes this blog effective, and to learn from the blogger’s experience.”

You must show the blog.

1-page outline handed to the class while discussing it

1.     History of the blog—

a.     How long blogging?

b.     Who is the blogger?

c.      Purpose?

d.     Geographic location?

e.     Number of followers

f.      Does it make money

2.     What makes this blog unique?

3.     What are its strengths?

4.     What are its weaknesses?

5.     What is the advice of the blogger?

6.     What do you like and dislike?

7.     What did you gain that influences you and your blog?

Dr. Seuss at the "Debate"

Clark's take, on Coffee with Clark
clarkcoffee.blogspot.com

Making money on your blog

Check this link to a story in the New York Times for income possibilities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/business/media/shopping-sites-pay-contributors-who-drive-traffic-to-retailers.html?ref=todayspaper

Speaker writing assignment

Covering Dr. Hochenauer:

Take notes on your computer of his comments.

Write  250 words on your blog about his advice on blogging:
1. Main points
2. Brief bio background of him
3. What you gained that can or might apply to your blog

4. Attach your raw notes, with your name, to the  comments on this blog below.