Learning in a digital age/LiDA101/PLE/Setting up your course blog

As this is a course focusing on digital literacies, blogging is a requirement for learners who wish to be assessed for formal credit. We strongly encourage learners who are participating in the course out of self interest to also establish a course blog, as this will improve your skills and enable you to network with your peers.

You can use any blog platform which has the capabilities to tag or label posts. Currently, we support Wordpress or Blogger. (We may not be able to harvest posts for the course feed using blogging platforms which do not support categories, tags or labels.) If you would like to use your existing blog, we will harvest posts which are tagged or labelled using the course code:"". However, you may prefer to set up a new dedicated course blog.

The first learning challenge for this course will take you through the steps to set up your blog.

Overview of the steps to set up your blog
