WORLD+LIT+BLOGGING

media type="custom" key="24068470" width="120" height="120" **POETRY BLOGGING MARCH 2014 ** = = = =

Instructions for following your classmates' blogs:
More specific instructions for who you read and how you respond to their blogs will be discussed in class.** [|IDEAS FOR BLOG FONTS]
 * 1. Go to your own blog layout tab on your dashboard and click "add** **gadget"**
 * 2. Scroll down the list of gadgets to choose "bloglist"**
 * 3. Once you install the Bloglist gadget, you will add the url for each classmate's blog**
 * to the bloglist. SAVE.**
 * 4. You can then return to your blog anytime to read what others are blogging.**
 * 5. If your blog is not on the list, you need to email me with the blog URL asap.**

INSIDIOUS BLOGS:
Amanda: [] Helen:[] Tom D:__ [] __ Kelsey: __ [] __ Abbie: [] Luda: __ [] __ Nick: [] Matt: __ [] __ [] [| thebroschblog.blogspot.com] [|alexdewhitt34.blogspot.com] __ http://emmblog22.blogspot.com/ __ [|mattbrock10.blogspot.com] [|ratchetopia.blogspot.com] __ not late __ __ [|cathuggers.blogspot.com] __ [] __ kylie __ [] __ graney __ [] __[]__ __ http://jwang0801.blogspot.com/2013/09/blogger.html __

BATMAN BLOGS
__[]__ __akgibney@blogspot.com__ __[]__ > __[]__ __[]__ [] [|teriobloggin.blogspot.com] [|tellmewhatthefoxsays.blogspot.com] __ http://teenagersreallyread.blogspot.com/ __ [] [] [] [] __ http://ilikerustyspoons1.blogspot.com/ __ [] [] [|christyxsy.blogspot.com] [] __ peyton __ [] __ http://ldolan03.blogspot.com/ __ [] [] [] [] __ joe lynch __

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STARTING YOUR BLOG
 * 1. Create a blog on Blogger.com with your email login: Follow instructions to make a blog: title it, check for title/URL availability and click through to choose a template .   Do not choose a google+ profile, choose a blogger ** **profile.**


 * 2. Choose a template. Later you can play with the color scheme, additional photos or graphics, etc.  **


 * 3. Look at the title block. It should include the header, and you may want to add a tag line underneath as well—as quote you like, a comment about yourself, etc.   **


 * 4.Write an “About” profile page introducing yourself to your readers and telling them what they can expect on your space. Depending on your template, you may create a profile PAGE or just a profile on SIDEBAR. They make that choice, not you. You may upload a photo from your online photo file (flickr, snapfish, shutterfly, picasa, etc) or find a FREE image online. Use Google Advanced search to find online photos that are free to use. You may also add a photo later from your own camera at home. **


 * 5. Save your blog to the Mac toolbar for your own sanity. Email yourself your password and your blog URL. Email me your URL, so that I can follow your blog.   **


 * 6 . Add at least two widgets that will be of interest to others who read your blog (other students and me). You do that on the LAYOUT tab. Click on add widget and peruse your choices. The instructions are self-explanatory once you get there. You could add your twitter feed, a news feed, whatever. **


 * 7. Create a blogroll : You will follow everyone else in the class. You can do that by adding them on the "join this site" button. It is on every blog design template, so it is somewhere on your blog already--often on the sidebar. (I will compile a master list of all of our blogs later, in case you miss anyone’s blog.) Then visit the “add widget” list again—they have a widget just for blogs. Easy to use. Choose at least three other blogs that you would like to read and subscribe to them. Possible areas of interest: **


 * News, politics, culture blogs—drudge report, intelligent life, slate, daily kos, michelle malkin, brainpicker, explore, etc, etc **


 * Techie things--gadgetwise, techcrunch, etc. **


 * Gaming? **


 * Sports sites **


 * Art--deviant art, the fox is black, tumblr, artchipel, etc **


 * World events & lit: words without borders, BBC **


 * Humor: xkcd, the onion, the oatmeal **


 * Book sites, fashion or music sites & blogs, etc   **
 * (goodreads.com, shelfari, bookvibe, etc) **


 * There are MANY ways to subscribe to blogs—I will go over some of your best choices in class. Feel free to inform your friends of your favorite ways to do this. I am not an expert. **


 * 8. Embed your blogroll into your sidebar, or create an individual blogroll page. **


 * And you are ready to roll blog. **

WHAT DO I WRITE ABOUT?
 * CRITICAL READING JOURNALS/BLOGS **
 * REQUIREMENTS **

** PROMPT IDEAS **
1. Note times when your reading changes, such as

~you notice something you have not noticed before

~patterns emerge

~there is a plot twist--and you expected it (or not)

~the purpose of the author seems to evolve from one thing to another

~you meet words or allusions you do not recognize. (don’t just look them

up. consider the purpose in including them)

2. Do you identify with the purpose, experience, values expressed in the text? Or if you don’t--what then? How are you connecting to the text?

3. When are you surprised or confused? What does not fit? If something or someone does not make sense, write about it.

4. When you have completed a text, consider the ending. What ended? Is it an appropriate ending? Predictable? Out of left field?

5. Note stylistic devices as you read--diction, syntax, tone, plot structure, figurative language, imagery etc--how is this writer using rhetoric to suit his/her purpose?

6. Choose an illuminating or essential quotation from the text for each reading session. Comment on the quotation’s significance to the work as a whole.**