Sunday, August 22, 2004
Blog Assignment Week 1: Get Your Blog Up and Running!
In addition to your papers and class participation, each student in this section of English 11 will be required to create and maintain their own weblog. Each week, students will be required to make at least two substantial (i.e. 100+ words) posts to your own blog as well as one significant comment to a post on another student's blog. At the beginning of each week I will link to the highlights of these posts on the main course blog and give you subjects for your posts as well as smaller assignments that will build your web skills.
Since things will be hectic this first week of class and some of you may encounter issues setting up your blogs you will have only three goals for this week:
1. Get your blog up and running on your UNC personal web space
2. Update your blogger profile with a recent picture of yourself
3. Write a post (remember, at least 100 words!) introducing yourself to the class.
Here are some tips for this assignment:
First things first: go to blogger.com and sign up for an account. Please use your UNC email address or another account you check regularly for your contact information.
When you get to step 2, "Name Your Blog," click on the link near the bottom of the page that says "Advanced Blog Setup."
On the Advanced Blog Setup screen, after giving your blog the title of your choice, fill in "isis.unc.edu" for your FTP Server, FTP for the protocol "public_html/eng11" for the FTP path, index.html for the file name and for Blog URL type "http://www.unc.edu/~YOURONYEN/eng11", replacing YOURONYEN with your ONYEN login name. If you get this far it shouldn't matter what other settings you choose.
After your blog has been created, take a digital photo of yourself and put it in the folder public_html/eng11blog on your H:/ drive. Then while signed in to blogger.com go to http://www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g and type http://www.unc.edu/~YOURONYEN/eng11/YOURFILE.JPG, replacing YOURONYEN with your ONYEN login and YOURFILE with name of the file you placed in the folder.
If you run into any problem, please visit me during my office hours, Wednesday from 11AM until 1PM or Friday 12PM until 1PM or email me at dlupton@email.unc.edu
In addition to your papers and class participation, each student in this section of English 11 will be required to create and maintain their own weblog. Each week, students will be required to make at least two substantial (i.e. 100+ words) posts to your own blog as well as one significant comment to a post on another student's blog. At the beginning of each week I will link to the highlights of these posts on the main course blog and give you subjects for your posts as well as smaller assignments that will build your web skills.
Since things will be hectic this first week of class and some of you may encounter issues setting up your blogs you will have only three goals for this week:
1. Get your blog up and running on your UNC personal web space
2. Update your blogger profile with a recent picture of yourself
3. Write a post (remember, at least 100 words!) introducing yourself to the class.
Here are some tips for this assignment:
First things first: go to blogger.com and sign up for an account. Please use your UNC email address or another account you check regularly for your contact information.
When you get to step 2, "Name Your Blog," click on the link near the bottom of the page that says "Advanced Blog Setup."
On the Advanced Blog Setup screen, after giving your blog the title of your choice, fill in "isis.unc.edu" for your FTP Server, FTP for the protocol "public_html/eng11" for the FTP path, index.html for the file name and for Blog URL type "http://www.unc.edu/~YOURONYEN/eng11", replacing YOURONYEN with your ONYEN login name. If you get this far it shouldn't matter what other settings you choose.
After your blog has been created, take a digital photo of yourself and put it in the folder public_html/eng11blog on your H:/ drive. Then while signed in to blogger.com go to http://www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g and type http://www.unc.edu/~YOURONYEN/eng11/YOURFILE.JPG, replacing YOURONYEN with your ONYEN login and YOURFILE with name of the file you placed in the folder.
If you run into any problem, please visit me during my office hours, Wednesday from 11AM until 1PM or Friday 12PM until 1PM or email me at dlupton@email.unc.edu
