Your assignment for today in class, is to blog about what is happening TODAY at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh.
Requirements for this post:
-Must LINK at least TWO outside sources, as you mention them in your post
-Needs to be at least 100 of your own words, so that does not count words you use in quotations.
-You must discuss at least TWO different countries viewpoints.
I recommend you work on this in class, and make a partial post. Remember you can always go back to edit a post you worked on earlier.
As I said in class, I will give you due dates for individual assignments, we are dropping the Tues/Friday post requirement, instead having due times on each individual assignment.
This assignment is due by the end of the day today (11pm)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday Class Assignment
I want to direct your attention again over to the politics ranking section over on Wikio.com. Today, I want you to scan headlines and briefly read blogs of TWO different sites. Your job is to discuss how "liberal" or how "conservative" you think those websites are. A lot of the time you can tell an authors opinion just by reading the first few lines from their blogs.
Here is an example of what you might want to write:
"I happened upon Greg Mitchells article over at the Huffington Post, and it seems as though he is taking a pretty harsh stance on Time Magazine devoting a cover to Glenn Beck, a popular conservative author. He had some harsh words to say, opening his piece with
"I have no quarrel with TIME ... so long as the accompanying story sticks to hard facts and harsh truths."
So I took a look at some of the other Blogs on HuffPost, and found..."
[Notice how I used the link feature so a reader can follow my source]
Your job is to take a look at TWO seperate online recourse, and discuss what you read there, and how liberal or conservative that site seems to be.
The only other requirement is that you need to pick your two sites to review from the top 20 political blogs on Wikio.com (the link above).
Good Luck
Here is an example of what you might want to write:
"I happened upon Greg Mitchells article over at the Huffington Post, and it seems as though he is taking a pretty harsh stance on Time Magazine devoting a cover to Glenn Beck, a popular conservative author. He had some harsh words to say, opening his piece with
"I have no quarrel with TIME ... so long as the accompanying story sticks to hard facts and harsh truths."
So I took a look at some of the other Blogs on HuffPost, and found..."
[Notice how I used the link feature so a reader can follow my source]
Your job is to take a look at TWO seperate online recourse, and discuss what you read there, and how liberal or conservative that site seems to be.
The only other requirement is that you need to pick your two sites to review from the top 20 political blogs on Wikio.com (the link above).
Good Luck
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Your First Post
You should post today in class at least once on your blog. And I am going to ask that you include a few specifics in that first post.
First, you should all go check out the website Wikio.com, where they have found a clever way to rank blogs around the internet. Particularly, check out their politics section of the site, to start getting a good idea of what kind of information we are looking for. By the way, in the blog world, you ALWAYS mention where you found the information, so in this case I should tell you I found that link through abcNew's The Note. (noticed the LINKED text, please do this!)
Take a while to look at some of these blogs, paying attention to both the information they pass on, as well as the formatting and what is appropriate typing
In your first post, I want you to introduce your blog. Tell the world its name, its purpose, and most importantly, what/who will you be following to get your information. You should mention the twitterers you found the other night for homework, and include them in your post. For example, you might want to follow John McCain's twitter and are going to keep an eye on the Huffingtonpost.com. I will be interested to know who you like to check back on, so feel free to mention as many as you can for now, at least as your starting ideas.
Good luck and welcome to blogging.
First, you should all go check out the website Wikio.com, where they have found a clever way to rank blogs around the internet. Particularly, check out their politics section of the site, to start getting a good idea of what kind of information we are looking for. By the way, in the blog world, you ALWAYS mention where you found the information, so in this case I should tell you I found that link through abcNew's The Note. (noticed the LINKED text, please do this!)
Take a while to look at some of these blogs, paying attention to both the information they pass on, as well as the formatting and what is appropriate typing
In your first post, I want you to introduce your blog. Tell the world its name, its purpose, and most importantly, what/who will you be following to get your information. You should mention the twitterers you found the other night for homework, and include them in your post. For example, you might want to follow John McCain's twitter and are going to keep an eye on the Huffingtonpost.com. I will be interested to know who you like to check back on, so feel free to mention as many as you can for now, at least as your starting ideas.
Good luck and welcome to blogging.
The Assignment...
Welcome to the Parkmont School US Government *Official* Blog
You will begin a project where you will be responsible for 2 (count 'em "two") blog posts per week. It will be your job to go out in to the Blogosphere (which yes, includes Twitter) and find out the hottest news in government today. You will use a variety of other online blogs, twitter posts, and news sources, with the goal of publishing your own blog, to keep the world updated on our government AS YOU SEE IT.
The requirement for this course will be that you post two blogs per week, one by Friday, and one by Tuesday. (The due time on this post is 11pm on those nights [get to bed!]). You are not limited to 2 posts in a week, but that is the minimum requirement.
I will use this blog to update you periodically with new information, and updates to this assignment.
Steps to Getting Started:
1) we are using blogger.com for this project, so everyone will need to create a blog there. To do this, you will need to have a Gmail email address, so if you don't have one already, head on over to www.gmail.com and register a new account. I have no particular preference about your user name, just keep it appropriate.
2) Register here, at Blogger.com, and set up your own blog. You can choose any name you want, but it should probably be something that makes sense for this class, so maybe not something like "Kittens R cute" or "Extreme Action Blog," Maybe instead "Sam's Gov Blog" or "This week in the US."
3) Once you have your blog set up, and your ready to begin, you need to tell me your new blog's name so I can monitor your progress. To do that, just make a post here in the comments, with your: name and your new blog name.
Check back here regularly to see if there are any new assignments, requirements, or maybe some tips on what and what not to write.
You will begin a project where you will be responsible for 2 (count 'em "two") blog posts per week. It will be your job to go out in to the Blogosphere (which yes, includes Twitter) and find out the hottest news in government today. You will use a variety of other online blogs, twitter posts, and news sources, with the goal of publishing your own blog, to keep the world updated on our government AS YOU SEE IT.
The requirement for this course will be that you post two blogs per week, one by Friday, and one by Tuesday. (The due time on this post is 11pm on those nights [get to bed!]). You are not limited to 2 posts in a week, but that is the minimum requirement.
I will use this blog to update you periodically with new information, and updates to this assignment.
Steps to Getting Started:
1) we are using blogger.com for this project, so everyone will need to create a blog there. To do this, you will need to have a Gmail email address, so if you don't have one already, head on over to www.gmail.com and register a new account. I have no particular preference about your user name, just keep it appropriate.
2) Register here, at Blogger.com, and set up your own blog. You can choose any name you want, but it should probably be something that makes sense for this class, so maybe not something like "Kittens R cute" or "Extreme Action Blog," Maybe instead "Sam's Gov Blog" or "This week in the US."
3) Once you have your blog set up, and your ready to begin, you need to tell me your new blog's name so I can monitor your progress. To do that, just make a post here in the comments, with your: name and your new blog name.
Check back here regularly to see if there are any new assignments, requirements, or maybe some tips on what and what not to write.
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