Week 2 - Blogs!

The Common Craft Show creates great, brief videos explaining what some of these technologies are all about. Why are blogs such a big deal?

Activity #1: See what they say in this 3 minute video...

Activity #2: Start your own blog!
Create your blog using Google's Blogger.com or Wordpress.com (two of the most well-known). After you've created your blog and written at least one post, reply-all to the last message I sent the group and tell us the address of your blog. The rest of us will check it out and leave comments. From now this is where you will "journal" your learning and tell us about the great stuff you're learning or find. It's time for the community to begin!

Blogs can be used for many different types of communication. I've used one to share my marathon training experience (several people in this group have read it!) and one for an international trip where it was fun to share our experience with friends and family. Many people use them professionally. The library's blog is to share updates on various items of interest -- kind of like an ongoing newsletter.

Yours is starting out as a journal focused on this program. Check out this post (warning: many of these are library-land examples) for ideas about the different roles or "tones" that blogs assume. What's yours going to be?

Activity#3: Read the different blogs that people in this group create. Leave them comments and encouragement!

Unless I just can't help myself, these are your only assignments this week. Next week we'll talk more about the millions and zillions of blogs out there and how to manage reading them (well, some of them). But for now just join the ranks of bloggers....