It’s now that time of year. Holidays are just around the corner.
Do you have any plans?
If you had no money or time constraints, what would be your ideal holiday?
A blog is all about you and your class beginning and continuing a conversation with your readers. Because you can’t meet face to face (f2f), somewhere on your blog, you will need to introduce yourself. There is usually a page called “About” or “About Me” in your sidebar.
1. Write about your class on your “About” page. Remember though to be internet savvy. Check out these sites for what to say or not say. Here are some examples of students and teachers who have already introduced themselves to their readers. Write in the comments for this post what you think should be included in your class ‘About’ page.
2. Begin a blogging glossary using any words written in orange . I suggest an excel spreadsheet so you can sort alphabetically at the end of the blogging sessions.
Here you will have a chance to show off your writing skills, your speaking skills, artistic talents and many other things. But to make it feel like your class blog, some things need to happen.
What theme do you want the page to have? We will do this in class today.
What do you want as a blog heading? What will be your tagline? What will be your class avatar? Do you want a clustrmap and flag counter to see where your visitors come from?
Check out the class blogs for Miss Wyatt’s and Mrs Logan’s classes.
For today’s activity, I want you to write a comment about what you think the heading and tagline should be and why. Remember to be internet savvy, use only your first name or a nickname Mrs Spencer knows and for website use the name of this class blog.
Next week we look at avatars.
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