Welcome to Week Two! Assignments for You

Tonight's lecture will cover the Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 in The Huffington Post Guide to Blogging. We'll take a look at The Huffington Post and use a blog as an example of everything that's good and right in the blogosphere. Then we'll move on to... Your Blogs.

You'll be working in small groups for the second half of class. For now, the groups are as follows (I'll adjust to accomodate any reasonable requests):

Group #1 -- Berkebile, Braun, Campbell, DeRiggi, Foster

Group #2 -- Garland, Graham, Henry, Hoolahan, King

Group #3 -- Kopa, Little, Milliner, Reilly, Russell

Group #4 -- Thomson, Yungwirth, Williams, Wilson, Wharton

Once you're in your group, you'll share your proposed Blog Names and Blog Topics with your group, and then with the whole class. Before we leave, you'll exchange blog addresses with members of your group and add all members to your blogroll.

At Home: E-mail me your blog addresses (lljakiela@gmail.com). I'll add all blog address to the Weblogublog blogroll.

Then -- Start blogging. You'll need to do at least three entries per week. And check in and comment regularly on all the blogs in your group.

Oh, and read Chapters 3 and 4 in Huffington. We'll have a short quiz next week.

Happy blogging!

Time Permitting:

Workshop some sample blog posts