Friday, September 7, 2012

Welcome EDT 321 students

Hi EDT 321 students! I hope you are enjoying setting up your own blog. For those of you who are already expert bloggers, please help out your fellow classmates by sharing tips and good blogs that you like.

Remember that for the discussion board assignment, you need to set up your own blog (or use your existing blog), answer a series of questions about blogs from within your own blog, and then post the link to your blog on the class discussion board.

As a reminder, here are the questions:


Next, create a post on your blog with the answers to the following questions (feel free to use Google or any other search tool to find the answers):
  1. What blog could you use to find a good place to eat in Tempe?
  2. What blog could you use to learn about how to invest in the stock market?
  3. What blog could you use to learn more about social media tools?
  4. What blog could you use to learn about new video games?
  5. What blog could you use to read movie reviews?
  6. What blog would you use if you wanted to learn about where your favorite band/musician was playing?
  7. What kind of information is found on the following blogs: 
    • Boy Genius Report
    • Gadling
    • Gawker
    • Failblog
    • Rotten Tomatoes
    • Grantland
  8. What is the difference between a blog and a micro-blog?
  9. Is Wordpress a blog or a micro-blog?
  10. What is an "Enterprise Micro-blog"?
  11. Name one enterprise micro-blogging service.
  12. Out of all the blog sites you visited, which one was your favorite? Please explain why?

Brian