Create and maintain a basic weblog/Sarah's blogging workshop/Week 1 Activity Sheet

Week 1: Looking at blogs

Objective


 * Be able to describe what a blog is.


 * Be able to find blogs that interest you.


 * Be able to use a RSS feed to monitor blogs that interest you.

Activity

1. Find out what a blog is.
 * What do you already know?


 * Definition


 * History


 * Why we should blog.

2. Using Google Blog Search, find blogs that may interest you.

3. Find out what RSS is.


 * Join Google Reader or Bloglines.


 * Start to save the blogs you have found in your RSS reader.

4. Join the workshop email forum


 * The email forum will be used to pass on information and continue discussions about issues that arise.

Resources

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com


 * Blog History: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FELx6Jvhg
 * Blogs in plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
 * Blogging. The staff experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PIiizu4yVg
 * RSS in plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
 * Adding feeds to Google Reader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8rJuQlsGw
 * Setting up Google Reader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9thcD3cS1so
 * Managing your feeds in Google Reader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskBKGBD6g8
 * How to use Bloglines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4PWrlpYes&feature=related
 * How to use Bloglines 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hlEU8yc54&feature=related

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Google Search: http://www.google.co.nz

Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.co.nz

Google Reader: www.google.com/reader

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com

Sue Waters: Subscribing to blogs and RSS feeds: http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/Subscribe

Vicki Davis: How to be an incredible blogger: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-be-incredible-blogger.html

Christine Martell: How I use Google Reader: http://www.astdcascadia.org/BlogCascadia/2007/09/how-i-use-google-reader