Sept. 8, Session 1 homework: The tools of self-publication, blogs, social media

• Orihuela, José Luis (2003), eCommunication: The 10 Paradigms of Media in the Digital Age, 2003 http://www.slideshare.net/jlori/orihuela-cost-paper 
• Orihuela, José Luis (2009), What blogs are and how to stop mistaking them for something else, http://www.ecuaderno.com/what-blogs-are-and-how-to-stop-mistaking-them-for-something-else/
• Rebecca Blood, 10 Tips for a better blog 
  

 Optional reading: 

Professors of the Book, Students of the Smartphone

Practical classes, Sept. 8 and 9

Group 1 will meet each Tuesday at 3:30-4:45 p.m. in Room 1560 of FCOM. 

Group 2 will meet each Wednesday,  3:30-4:45 p.m. in the Multimedia Room of FCOM.

Group 3 will meet remotely each Wednesday,  3:30-4:45 p.m. Prof. Lus Gárate will work with these students after presenting the weekly exercise to the students who are present. 

Students will only need to attend one practical class a week. You can change groups during the first few weeks of the course.

Creating a blog, and finding a topic

Each student will write a series of six blogs as part of a group.

What will you write about and who will be in your group? We will start to organize groups in the theory class on Tuesday Sept. 8.

During the practical class In the theory class on Sept. 8, we will have a discussion around forming groups to explore a topic in a series of the types of topics that we might want to explore in a blog.

1) Students will organize themselves into groups of 3 to 5 and decide on a topic for the thematic blog. Once the team has decided on a theme, you should discuss it with the professor for approval.

Suggestion: pick a topic that you know something about and that you want to know even more about.  

2) Using Wix, Blogger, or WordPress, the group should create a blog.

3) The group should designate a coordinator of the blog. The coordinator then invites the other members of the team to be authors. The dynamics of this will be different for Wix, Blogger, or Wordpress. For Blogger, go to (Settings/Basic/Permissions/Add Authors) by email. You can also use Wordpress (Users/Invite/New).

4) As indicated in the class schedule, the first post of each member of the team should be, "The story of your personal connection with the topic".

5) Each student should start working on the draft of their first blog post and review the Guidelines for Blogs of the class. Each blog post should be around 200 words. Not too much shorter. Not too much longer.

6) At the end of the class, the coordinator of each group will post in ADI, Exercise 1 (only the coordinator of the blog needs to do this):

• Title of the blog
• The authors
• And the link to the blog (the URL)

7) It would be good for the blogs have a related Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or other social media account account to improve visibility of the contents.