Welcome Students of the ENAC

You are going to learn about blogs, blogging, and you will make your own WordPress.com blog. At the end of class today you may keep it, delete it, or take what you learn today and make your own new blog. The choice is up to you. Each activity is is listed as a separate blog [...]

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Activity 1- Oral Introductions

Sit with a partner. Each of you had spent the last 3 months away from school training for your future job. Take 3 minutes to tell your partner what you have been doing this past 3 months. When I give you the signal, change roles and the other partner will describe their last 3 months. [...]

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Activity 2- Thinking about blogs

Indicate whether the following sentences are True or False. Discuss with your partner. You have about 5 minutes.

Blogs are not websites

You need to know a programming language like html or php to create a blog.

Blogs are a waste of time, they only display personal information about people that no one really cares about.

Facebook and Myspace [...]

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Activity 3 -Blogging in Plain English video

Watch this 3 minute video on blogging http://commoncraft.com/blogs
Review the video. The video said there are big differences between news in the 20th and 21st century. What are some of those differences? Make a T chart on the board and fill it in with students.
Watch the video again, this time students read the transcription as it [...]

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Activity 4- Vocabulary Development

While you visit the following blogs, identify the vocabulary words on your vocabulary sheet. Think about where you find them on a blog and what do they do.
Blogs
Personal Blogs

France Tales
http://davidsswamp.blogspot.com/
Nerdy Nomad

Humor

News Groper Parody Blogs

Technical

Tech Crunch
Gizmodo
Engadget
Hack a Day

Political

Daily Koz
The Huffington Post
Crooks and Liars

Professional

Design Disease
Microsoft

Aviation Blogs

http://www.thirtythousandfeet.com/blogs.htm
http://www.myflightblog.com/index.php
http://tonysclimateblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/clean-aviation-news-from-airbus-boeing.html

You can also do a Blog Search using Technorati or Blogger.
There are [...]

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Activity 5 – Sign up and begin blogging

Demonstrate the dashboard and how to access all of Word Press’ features from there. You can choose to each have your own blog but work together to set them up.  You can also make one blog for the two people. Please follow along and do not work ahead. Pay attention to your domain name and your [...]

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Activity 6 – Your 1st post, your last 3 months

Write your 1st post on your blog’Write a description of what you  have been doing the last 3 months.
Make it 1 paragraph. The paragraph should be about you but be sure not to describe any sensitive ENAC related information. Where have you been and what have you been doing? 
Discuss it with your partner 1st and [...]

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Activity 7 – Making Comments

I will demonstrate how to leave a comment on a blog.
You will all write and receive your first comments on your blog.
Visit each of the blogs listed on the board.
Read each person’s post.
Write a comment.
Your comment should show an understanding of what you read and if possible you should point out any English errors you [...]

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Activity 8 – Teaching Each Other

Each group must choose one of the following tasks to do on your blog.Write a post explaining how to do it. Explain to the class how it is done.Embed a you tube video in a posthttp://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/Upload a picture to a posthttp://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/how-do-i-upload-pictures/You might need to go to a photo site like Flickr or Photobucket to get [...]

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Activity 9 – Blogging Resources

http://wordpress.com/features/
 http://faq.wordpress.com/
.http://en.forums.wordpress.com/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/im-new-to-blogging-where-do-i-start/

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