Set up a blog

There are a number of free blog creation sites available to anyone with an email address.  Visit some of these sites and determine which hosting service you'd like to use. Then create a blog. The plan will be for you to update your blog on a weekly basis with specific assignments that I give you as well as opportunities to contribute original material and publish it as well.

On a blog there are a number of different types of information. There is the content stream that you (the blogger) produce, and there are the regular static features of a blog. There is also the theme or layout of the blog to consider.  An assignment to work on in class over the next couple of days:

Visit one of these sites:

• Blogger (the service that created this site)
• Wordpress

As part of our consideration of new media, I would like you to work on setting up a blog site. You will be responsible for setting up the site, creating its static features, maintaining its content, moderating the comments, and responding to class assignments.

I would like you to keep in mind that while these blogs are an active part of this class, the content contain therein should remain school appropriate. Anything you create on school time and school equipment is subject to school review.

For now, create a blog containing the following features:

• a content stream that is predominant on the page. 
• include an introductory post
• include two posts that each link to news stories found on reputable news sites and contain a paragraph or two of comment from you.
• a blogroll with links to the blogs of other students in this class and this blog.
• at least two other static features.

** Journalism I students: be sure to produce a new entry on your blog for each of the remaining days in this week (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Have this much completed by Friday, January 28th, 2011.