Feb
13
Digital assignment #7: Search Engines and RSS
February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Complete this assignment by Monday 2/18, and I can answer any questions you have in class.
1. Open up your Google Reader. In a separate tab to go blogpulse’s advanced search option.
2. In the “search for” line choose “exact phrase” and enter in the theme of your blog.
3. Click go.
4. [...]
Jan
26
First weekly blog post
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Your first weekly blog post is due this Friday (2/1) by midnight. For this post I’d like to see you write an introduction to your blog. In this post you might detail the “theme” of your blog and explain what aspects of that theme you plan to cover. You might include your [...]
Jan
26
Notes on blogging
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here are some final thoughts, tips, and suggestions before you begin your regular weekly blogging.
1. Most Important: Make sure the time-stamp on your blog is accurate. Here’s how: Go to options (from your dashboard); scroll down to Date and Time; in the box next to where it reads — [...]
Jan
22
digital assignment #3: blogging/linking practice and subscribing to feeds
January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
due: Friday, Jan. 25 (by midnight)
Find one online news source and one blog (NOT a classmate’s blog) that interest you–create a brief (one to five sentences) description of the site and put a link to it in your blog. If you find something that you want to read (and write about) regularly, subscribe to it–that [...]
Jan
9
Welcome!
January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is the class blog site for ENG 105 Expository Writing, Oral Communication, and Research Techniques. Here you can find the syllabus (should you lose your hard copy), assignment details, and any general class announcements. For now you will have to check back here regularly to get class assignments and announcements, but a [...]
Jan
7
digital assignment #1: setting up your blog
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
due: Tuesday, January 15th by 5pm
1. Go to wordpress.com
2. Click on “Get a Wordpress Blog now”
3. Choose a username. Please note that this username will become part of the URL for your blog. For example, the username for this blog is eng105, and the URL is www.eng105.edublogs.org. In other words [...]
