Syllabus

Here's the syllabus

Getting Ready

Take 10 minutes to scan this link.
Ideas for your blog
Then view this tutorial

If you have a blog already, please bring it up, and let's look at it.

Expectations?

What do you expect, what I expect?

What do you expect ?

Out of professors, this class, this department, this university?

(What makes a good professor?) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I expect of you

(What makes a good student?)

·   To write, speak well

·   To think critically

    (To ask questions)

·   To solve problems

·   To be creative

·   To act ethically

(Including respecting others)

·   To work hard

·   To be adept at technology

·   To be passionate

·   To act like this class is a job

(Be here, and on time)

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email: tmclark44@gmail.com

• Intros
• Fact sheets
• Interests
• What is a blog?
• In class view:Blogging founder

• BlogblogUCO.blogspot.com
• Student samples
  Show Coffee with Clark
• Pioneer Woman 
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 
•  Okiefunk
• BlogOklahoma 
•  
• Need gmail account separate from university

• Syllabus quiz Thursday--
• Title area of blogging
• Picking name of blog
• Set ups Thursday
• Viewing other student blogs
• What we expect?
• Assignments: state of the blogosphere--

1. Read: 

• http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/01/blog-readership-demographics-2013/Welcome bloggers. Check and read these links by Thursday.
• http://www.slideshare.net/crbrook/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011
• http://trends.e-strategyblog.com/2012/08/01/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-2012-infographic/2383
• http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/buzz-in-the-blogosphere-millions-more-bloggers-and-blog-readers.html
• http://influencemarketingbook.com/the-state-of-digital-influence-2013/

2. What are two things you learned you didn't know about blogging, posted below by 5 pm Wed. Jan. 13

3. What have you decided for a title for your blog?

4. Do you have a separate gmail account yet?

5. Once that is set up and you have a blog, have your blog become a follower of this blog, and Coffee with Clark.

Syllabus Requirements 

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1.     Faithful attendance. Grade will drop one level for each two absences after the first two. You may not make up missed in class writing and take a 0. If you miss more than 6 class sessions, you will flunk. NO LATE WORK. Any late work will earn a “0.”

2.     Be on time to class. Three times late equals an absence.  If you’re more than 15 minutes late, it counts as an absence.

3.     Design and creation of a blog.

4.     The ability to write complete, grammatically correct, sentences.

5.     Weekly postings on the blog, including class notes, and speaker stories.

6.     Note: you must post every week, starting with week three, deadline end of class Thursdays. If you miss a week, you lose points for that week.—in other words, you can’t make those points up (at least 15) (Hint—in the past, students with the most posts get higher grades than those with minimal or insufficient ones).

7.     At least 15 blog posts of original content.

8.     Follow BlogblogUCO, class blog.  http://blogblogUCO.blogspot.com There will be weekly assignments on this blog, with deadlines. Missed deadlines mean a 0 for the assignment.

9.     Following a professional blog in your area, with blog report, presentation.

10.  500-word essay on blogs in today’s world.

11.  Note: Your blog must contain original writing. If it is a photography blog, you must have words with every photo, and the blog must have more than captions.

Required web sites:

• http://blogblogUCO.blogspot.com
• Technorati.com;

• BlogOklahoma.com;
• Huffingtonpost.com

Recommended web sites:

• Clarkcoffee.blogspot.com

• pioneerwoman.com;
• mashable.com;

Recommended Texts:

• Google Blogger for Dummies. Susan Gunelius. Wiley, 2009

GRADING SCALE: 100-91--A; 90-81--B; 80-70--C; 60-69--D.

• Creation, design, improvement and maintenance of blog—300 points—30 percent
• Weekly posts—300 points—30 percent (15 posts minimum to be eligible for a “C”; 20 to be eligible for a “B”) More than 20 to be eligible for an “A”). Failure to meet these standards overrides other points.) Each post is graded on quality and quantity.
• Blog Essay—100 points—10 percent
• Blog presentation, paper—100 points—10 percent
• Blogblog comments—100 points—10 percent
• Final test, multiple choice—100 points—10 percent
• Total: 1,000 points
• Note: The final test will be over blogging terms from the text and class, and comments from the speakers.

DEADLINES: Must be met. Absolutely. Period. End of discussion. Journalism is a deadline business. Accordingly, late work will not be accepted. Don’t bother to hand it in—you get a “0” grade. Absence is no excuse.

 

Advice for future students

What would be your one piece of advice for blogging students next semester?

Suggestions for next semester

Do you have recommendations  for changes to next semester's class?
Additions, subtractions, other ideas?
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