Online Journal

Hello guys,

For this assignment, you are to set up a blog account and please do so as soon as possible. A soon as the blog is created, please email the blog address to dzeelfa@hotmail.com. Don't stress yourself out if you have not written anything by then, i just need the blog addresses.

Just go to http://www.blogspot.com/ and open an account. There are other blog providers that you can get your blogs from but i will not confuse you further at this point. Just use blogspot. Get your family and friends to help you.

OK now we will go through what a journal for this course SHOULD NOT be:

1. Do not tell me what happened during face to face (for those who attended). This is not a diary so please do not record your daily activities in it.

2. Do not be so rigid in your writing, worse still if you are being boring. Experience does not only mean your time in the classroom! Sometimes you can share with us teaching ideas but hey NOT ALL THE TIME! Avoid rigidity even if it is your middle name.


3. Do not copy paste stuff from the internet and pass it as your own. Give acknowledgment. Also write your own ideas. Readers can definitely know if things are copy pasted. Do not tell us how to write a position paper or how to write a research paper on your blogs. That's my job. (i'm just telling you because it has happened- among other bizarre things).

WHAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO:

1. This assignment is all about you reflecting on the readings you have done (from the module and/or the texts you have read in the course of you writing your position and/ research paper). As you work on your position paper, debating and arguing issues in your head, you might want to record these thoughts on your blog.

2. Use visuals-pictures that are related. Use audio if you want. You can stick a related video in your entry. Your blog is your home but please make it an IKEA showroom (for the lack of a better example)

3. Talk about related poems or songs which reminds you of the issue discussed in a certain perscribed text. Just an idea. Be creative and fun, let your blog be sth that you'd be proud to show others (your students maybe, to motivate them, get them interested in literature)

That's all i can think of now.

Tell your friends about this blog and tell them to send me the blog addresses.

Do not forget to put your email subject as EDU3234- Blog Address

OK GOODLUCK.