Websites for Blogging

Hi all. Please don't forget to email me your blog urls by Friday. You can send them to msaaland@gmail.com.

Here are some free sites you can use for blogging:
Blogger (which we used for our utopian project)
Wordpress
Tumblr
Typepad
Livejournal

Also, here is a link to a helpful site if you are looking for tools to help you explore the web, from hosting pictures for free to getting a free email:
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Again, here are the directions:

Reader Response Blog

In addition to your reading logs, you will be responsible for keeping a blog in which you think through thoughts and feelings that you have in response to the material we study, the class discussions and activities that we engage in, and any other experience you have with the unit topic. Your blog should have a minimum of five (5) postings, but you are welcome to include more. The following issues will be factors in the way I grade your blog:

• Your blog does not need to follow the conventions of textbook English. Rather, the purpose is to think about the class without worrying what form your thoughts take. As this is part of your classwork, while academic language is not required (or even encouraged) please do keep in mind using language which would be appropriate for school (i.e. no swearing, please).

• Do not simply summarize the literature we read in class. While you need to refer to these texts, the primary purpose of your blog is to think about your response to them, rather than to provide summaries of what they say. In other words, your journal should focus on how you have engaged with the literature.

• You are welcome, though not required, to reflect on personal issues that occur to you in relation to your consideration of the literature. Keep in mind that I am required by law to share any thoughts or suggestions of violence, suicide, substance abuse, family abuse, or other harmful behavior with the school counselors.

• Each blog post should be a minimum of two hundred (200) words. Any additional posts you make will count towards your participation points. You will receive double points for each quality blog posting you do (one point for short entries). This includes comments on others' blogs.

• As this is a public forum, please do not reveal personal information about yourself such as your home address, your telephone number, your last name, or any other confidential information about yourself. You are more than welcome to use a pseudonym for yourself if you like.

• Part of what makes blogs exciting is the ability to include multimedia. You are more than welcome (in fact, encouraged) to link to other sites which you find relevant, include images and video, and anything else you can think of which is appropriate to the discussion.

• On the day your blogs are due, you do not having reading logs due.
  

Due Dates for Blogs

2/27 – Blog created
3/2 – Blog #1
3/9 – Blog #2
3/13- Blog #3
3/18 – Blog #4
3/25 – Blog #5