Establishing+a+blog


 * __ HOW TO SET UP YOUR BLOG __**

You will need a blog for your CHAT, TAPE, PEP, and BRASS entries. Each week you will be entering 4 blog posts: one each for
 * CHAT (writing about the week's reading)
 * TAPE (writing about your experience using the web technologies specified for the week and how they might be useful in your teaching)
 * PEP (writing about what you think of the reading and tools you explored for the week relative to how you teach)
 * BRASS (writing about what classmates discovered and shared concerning their reading, work with the tools, and relating these items to their personal teaching style)

To set up your WordPress Blog, there is a tutorial for using WordPress at Atomic Learning,__ [] __. Consider watching as much as possible from sections A - D. You will need a username and password to log into Atomic Learning. I will send these to you by email. The username and password are just for Johnson students. Please do not share them.  WordPress can be accessed to establish a free account at [|http://www.wordpress.com]. If you are unable to access WordPress, tryhttp://www.blog.com for a similar blog experience. Blog.com is like Wordpress, except it allows advertising. The instructions in the tutorial at Atomic Learning for WordPress should work virtually the same way for Blog.com.

Each post you write will need to be given a category label: CHAT, TAPE, PEP, or BRASS. __You will need to employ a Categories widget__ on your blog to track these different blog posts through the semester.

Send me, by email, the web address for your blog. I will set up a page on the course wiki you may use to see each other's blogs. You may bookmark that page in your browser on your computer.

Students in this course in past years listed one another's blog addresses on their blogs in what is called a blogroll. Please do not use a blogroll this year.