{"id":140,"date":"2004-08-21T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2004-08-21T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T11:06:26","slug":"using-a-blog-in-my-internet-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/teaching\/using-a-blog-in-my-internet-class","title":{"rendered":"Using a Blog in my Internet Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be having my students use blogs in the course <a href=\"http:\/\/people.umw.edu\/~ernie\/cpsc104\">CPSC 104<\/a>, a course without prerequisites about the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming that a blog will provide one outlet for the writing I want them to do in the class. I&#8217;m particularly concerned about writing for the Web in ways that are interesting, informative, and substantial. I feel pretty comfortable with ways to do that, since I&#8217;ve been doing that with students for sometime, but not through a blog. I also want to use a blog as a means to have students think about presentation issues and some elementary HTML. I will eventually want them to include hyperlinks and images in their blog entires, and I&#8217;m assuming (again) that some will want to spruce\/spice up their blog entries.<\/p>\n<p>Questions I have deal with how to introduce students to using a blog in ways that allow them to How to deal with the notion of a blog in a structured way.  Some thoughts are for me to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>introduce the notion of a blog and show several examples\n<li>include in a list of HW questions they have to answer, some questions about blogs and also ask them to name, briefly describe, and give the URLs for 3 blogs they find interesting\n<li>show them in class how to set up a blog with blogger.com\n<li>have them do an in-class lab where they set up a blog at blogger.com\n<li>over a week or so, give them some specific topics to write about in their blogs\n<li>at the end of the first week of their using a blog, we&#8217;ll talk about RSS and show them how to use a news aggregator to check on other blogs.\n<li> during the second week of their using a blog require them to include one or more hyperlinks in a blog entry\n<li>After that we&#8217;ll see where it all goes &#8211; what other things they want to do with HTML.\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be having my students use blogs in the course CPSC 104, a course without prerequisites about the Internet. I&#8217;m assuming that a blog will provide one outlet for the writing I want them to do in the class. I&#8217;m particularly concerned about writing for the Web in ways that are interesting, informative, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}