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Audioboo – A Podcast for your Blog

Hey guys check this out – an easy way for you to post a podcast to your blog.  Go here for the audioboo link – register for the site.  Doesn’t cost you a thing…and you already know thanks to Edward Snowden that the government listens all the time and knows everything about you – so that shouldn’t matter.  Sign up.  Play around with the sight.  Make a 3:00 audioboo recording like the one I did above.  Get the embed code and post it to your blog.

See if you can do it on your own. If not, I’ll help you out next week.  We can change grades on the blog for podcasts (20 points)  which may or may not raise your (MP#2 final blog grade) which may or may not raise your second marking period final grade.  If it does, I’ll bump it up.

See what you can do with this thing.  It’s pretty cool.  And really easy.

See you soon.

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HELP!

Thirty Point Assignment – due Wednesday November 6 11:59 PM.

Guys…don’t be afraid of constructive criticism.  To get it or to give it.

In reading your evaluations – I am continually struck by the fact that you see imperfections in one anothers’ blogs but you are hesitant to announce that to the individual who created that blog.   Don’t be!  One – you need to be comfortable in presenting critiques – “in your own right.”  Part of communication in the workplace and in life is being honest.  So, be honest.   Two – your friends need your advice.  Come on…if these blogs are going to improve then people need to hear what you have to say.  So say it.  If you see something that needs work then say it needs work.

Finally, you can be creatively constructive.  What I mean by that – couch your criticism in constructive conversation.  Don’t be afraid to speak your mind…but don’t YELL – YOUR BLOG SUCKS!

Because of this… another Google Docs collaboration assignment.  This one is thirty points.  This one is due by Wednesday November 6 at 11:59 PM.  Provide three solid criticisms to your fellow students’ blogs – THREE – each is worth ten points.  Send me the copy of the post – be nice, be constructive, be explicit, but be honest.   And provide the reasons that you think that this improvement will upgrade the said blog…and lets see some depth; even if that means suggesting that the blog creator take a look at another person’s work.  Also, make sure to not merely repeat those criticisms that you noted on your previous evaluation.  Who knows: they may be fixed by now.

And then go post it online at the appropriate blog.

If your suggested do not get posted to the blog that they are directed to, you don’t get any credit for the google docs post.   And finally, do not take the suggestions personally – we are all working towards the same goal here.

So, get moving…

 

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Don’t be afraid to say what you SEE

Hey guys…

These blogs of yours look GREAT!  The quality of sights coming out of this assignment is very very good.  I’m impressed.  That being said – if you keep pushing it will improve –Unknown-2 your blog and others as well.  To do so, we need to take the evaluation assignment to the next level
..so

1 – Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Use the stuff that you see as positive off of other students’ blogs, on your own. Copy it!  That’s what blogs are about.  A number of you have noticed Michael’s Bucket List.  Cool. Get your own bucket list.  That’s what blogs are all about.  Foreign guys – check the way that each of you are laying out your country – if you see an effective format, copy it.  That’s the way these things get better.

2 – Don’t be afraid to be critical of your fellow students.  You’ve made great insights to me into other people’s blogs – positive and negative.  I have a feeling that you will not post the negatives on other people’s blogs – then how do they improve their position?  You don’t have to say HEY YOUR BLOG SUCKS!  but you can say – I think if you did this it might be improved or if you did that I think it would help.  And positives are always welcomed – so mix things up.

That’s the way we all get better together!  And make sure that spelling does not become a problem whether you are German, French, Ghanan, or American.  So far so good.  I did not expect to see so many quality blogs so early in the game…your efforts here are well noted.

Have a nice weekend.

mrw

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Blogs Part II – Blog Critiques

  • Assignment is due by Friday, November 1 @ 11:59 PM. 
  • Minimum 1000 words.  I want you to do a thorough evaluation.
  • This assignment is worth 100 points.  

OK…here we go.  The easy part is done – you’ve got yourself a blog.  That’s good in one sense.  You have a place that you can send a potential employer, where they can learn more about you and hopefully consider your hire based in part on that information.  Or a scholarship committee will look you up and check you out and choose you among scores in competition.  You might use your blog as an added information site while applying for various colleges.  There are all sorts of reasons that this blog of yours can make a positive blog-worlddifference in your life.

Unfortunately a blog that is not up to date, or is incomplete, or very difficult to manage tells a story as well.  A sloppy blog that doesn’t get a regular update indicates problems.  What’s at the end of that link – the layout and the message that you bring to the table is vital.  Which brings us to Blog Assignment Part II.

Blogs Part II – Critiques – Refining my Blog.

I want you to go to the Buddha blog above and look at all of the Senior blogs posted on my sight.  Look around…go through as many as you can; eyeball them.  Look for ideas.  Identify blog strengths that you might be able to copy.   Finally, it would be nice, however not necessary to leave any messages (suggestions and compliments) on the student blogs that you have evaluated, in order to help that individual improve their creation.

The Guidelines for this evaluation:

Move through the blogs looking for strengths until you 

  • 1 – Identify the blog by student name.
  • 2 – Strengths
  • Identify each strength that you find in that blog that may be useful for you to use (in a word). Follow that word up with a statement paragraph form on why this is a strength .   Repeat as needed with strengths.  And move on to the next blog…until you fulfill the required word limit.

It is my hope that by thoroughly evaluating others’ blogs that you will come up with ideas that increase the efficiency of your own blog and help others (through comments) to make theirs better as well.  Check the following directions for Google docs posting…

  1. Create a gmail account
  2. Go to Google Drive
  3. Create a document
  4. Rename it –  period 1, SCI, your name and title of the assignment (Blog Critiques).
  5. Share it with Mr. Wood (bobwoodmsu@gmail.com) and allow me to edit
  6. check the box that “sends me a copy” that’s you –  to ensure that the google docs was sent

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