Firstly, we’ll do a quick follow up from last week and address any questions, then take a look at Assessment Task 1.
Next, we’ll discuss: What are some ways we can demonstrate network literacy on our blog? You should back up your discussion with a reference (quote or other) to this week’s reading.
This week’s exercises are below. Similar to last week, these will make up part of your blog checklist to be completed in the Week 3 workshop.
Differently to last week, you will notice a lot less detail in this task. This is deliberate, all the information you need to know is out there, so go find it! Of course you can always ask your tutor for help in the workshop.
If you had an existing blog before this course, you may have completed some of these steps already, but make sure to check. If so, you should focus on the optional tasks, suggested blog entries, finding/reading other student’s blogs, analysing the reading and any other ideas that you can write about and use in your first assessment task.
Exercises:
- Expand your Blogroll (links): 5 student blogs, 5 ‘other’ blogs. In dashboard, you need to add a link, then set the link category to something that is on your sidebar
- Add a widget to your blog sidebar (can be anything you like)
- Select a Creative commons license and add it to your blog sidebar: http://creativecommons.org.au/
There are also a few optional things you can do, depending on your level of interest:
- Learn about RSS and see how you can use it on your blog
- Add twitter feed to blog sidebar (your own, or #netmed2016 …?)
- Start a Codeacademy course https://www.codecademy.com/
For next week:
Bring some photos, or audio, or video (or all 3). Phone quality is fine, but you will be uploading it to your blog, so make sure it’s something that you’re comfortable with being public.
Suggested blog entries:
- Standard stuff; notes on the reading, lecture, class discussion
- Write about the widget you have chosen, what it does and why you chose it
- Read other student’s blogs and link to one of their posts