Having an online presence can be a lot of fun, but also holds a lot of responsibility! Here are some key tips to remember when creating posts for your blog.
- Don't divulge personal information: use your FIRST NAME ONLY, don't give any details with regards to contact information, home address, phone numbers, last names of friends or relatives, instant messaging names, age, or birth date.- No questionable photos of you or anything else: If you wouldn't show it to your grandma, don't post it on the web! Avoid posting photos of yourself.- Remember the internet is permanent! Anyone on the Internet can easily print out a blog or save it to a computer.- Use blogging provider sites with clearly stated terms of use, and make sure they can protect the actual blogs, not just the user accounts, with password protection. (Even so, it's better to assume anyone can see it.)- Avoid trying to "out-do" or compete with other bloggers.
- Keep it clean and positive: Our blogs are reflective of our Catholic values. Sexist, racist, homophobic, or any type of oppressive and offensive language will not be tolerated!
Welcome to the 2014/2015 grade 10 Media Arts/Comm course. I am happy to have you all as students in this new and exciting school year. For this blog unit we will be sharing some news, stories and events that involve digital media along with various other forms of media.
As part of your media arts / communications technology course you will be required to create and maintain your own media arts / communications blog. Blogging has quickly become a very popular form of communication and online journaling.
Through this course your will be required to reply to six different media / technology issues or topics that will be posted here for you to respond to on your own blog. Each response must be no less than 300 words and should have discussions relevant to media arts and communication technology. You will also be required to respond to 6 other people's blogs with thoughtful ideas and comments with a 100 words (min). The evaluation for this unit is found in your unit guide. Once you have completed all tasks (which will take you several months) you will submit your unit guide, with a list of the six blogs that you responded to, for evaluation.
Happy Blogging!
Ms. Powell
Having an online presence can be a lot of fun, but also holds a lot of responsibility! Here are some key tips to remember when creating posts for your blog.