Week Thirty-One - More questions from Gordon

Gordon has given us more questions for our weblog class today:

Which is the most important function of a Blog?

I think that the most important function of a Blog is that it's like a on-line diary of what we all do. 

Give me three different ways you can follow Blogs?

• I could be given the address of the Blog by the person behind the Blog
• I could uses links I find on the website
• I could search for the title of the blog

Give me three different names of blog search engines with their links

• Windows Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Chrome

Give me the name and link to a professional blog authoring company

The Register blog website:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/hpc/

What is an advantage of using a RSS reader?

RSS enables blogs to be published more accurately and have the blog entries updated frequently, such as new headlines, audio and video recordings. 

I hope that these answers are what Gordon is looking for.  I just need two more blogs to review, but I need help with that.  Hopefully I will find those two blogs. 


Wish us all luck

Week Thirty-one - Seven weeks to go

Seven weeks to go till the end of the course.  Where has the previous two weeks gone?


Paula's class today (Tuesday) isn't on today but Gordon's class after Paula's has been moved to where her class is so we have Gordon from 9 first thing till 1.15 in the afternoon, with a break at 11.  It will be good with Gordon when he's teaching.  I just need two blog reviews to do for him, and the three I've already done for him are the only ones I know.  All I need for Paula's class are images for my web pages for the class. 


On Wednesday, for David's class, I need to get some images and video recordings for the project then put it all together.  For Graeme's class I would like to experiment with the paint.net software Graeme has shown us then I can decide on what to do with the images I'm doing for the class. 


On Thursday, for Communications class, I need to write up a 700 word report of something related to Digital Media (in case, blogs).  Then for Graeme's class, I think that my group has to check where we are with the work on "Good for Apps" site then started designing the app we're making for the class. 


Lots to do before the week, and the course in seven weeks, is over.  I'd better get started.  I'll double-check where I am in the work then get started. 


Wish us all luck

Week Thirty - Keeping up with the Blogs

Gordon has asked us to keep our blogs up to date and to do five blog reviews - I have only done two reviews with a third needing to be double checked.  Three of the blogs I have done my reviews on are college related, but for the other two blogs I need to do - I know hardly any other blogs.  And many blogs may not be the blogs I'll like to read. 

 

So far with this blog, I think that I have done well.  This blog is kept up to date every week I'm in or around college and using it to let Gordon know how I have been doing with the classes I do with him and with the other classes and if I need help. 

 

I think that the people who follow by blog will most likely be students like me.  Gordon has asked us answer some questions for him by next week and post on our blogs. 

1. Give me your definition of what a blog is, and why you would want to create on?

A blog is a form of on-line logs, or something like a diary on the internet, for all to see.  This college blog I'm doing is part of the course I'm doing, NC Digital Media Level 5, as per asked by our lecturer, Gordon.  I had never done a blog before I came onto the course so I decided to give it a try after I learnt that it was part of the course. 

2. Give a brief description of what RSS does and what it stands for?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and it entails publishing the most updated information such as blogs, news headlines, both of which can have audio and video clippings.  Whenever a blog is published, it gives the time and date of the publication of the blog. 

3. Give three examples of free blogging software?

• weebly website - www.weebly.com 
• simplesite website - www.simplesite.com
• b2evolution.net/

4. Give me 5 criteria of a high quality blog

• The blog gives good information, not too much if the author of the blog doesn't want to publish too much
• The blog can have images in the blogs
• The blog can have a good title to go with the blog
• The blog can be allowed to be read by any, or unless the author wants just a targeted audience for the blog
• The blog must be proof read before being published in case of any spelling mistakes in the blog and could make the reader to dislike the blog

I hope that these answers are what Gordon is looking for, and that he'll be happy about them. 

Here's to the rest of the week and the rest of the course. 

Wish us all luck

Week Thirty

Last week went by quickly enough, only problem is that we have eight weeks left before the course ends.  Just hard to believe. 


In Gordon's hardware classes, I hope that I'm all up to date with the tasks needed done before we continue onto the problem solving of the classes.  In Paula's Web Page Creation class, I need to get images of the books I'm writing for my web pages. 


In Graeme's Still Images class, I just need to do the paperwork.  The in David's class, I just need to a base map and then do some images and audio recordings for the class. 


I hope that this week goes well for all of us. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Twenty-nine - Back at College

Back at College - Hard to believe that the Easter Holiday is over for us.  The past couple of weeks has been too warm for my liking, but I hope that summer will be cooler than it has been for the past couple of years. 


So far today, we have reset our computers in Gordon's class and so far so good and now we just need to check our notes to see where we are and start work again. 


I hope that this week is all about getting back into the routine of the week and will be at a steady pace for us all.