Activity 5: blog

What for?
Blogs or weblogs have been the spearhead in the evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 as far as active participation on the Internet is concerned (see Blogs in Plain English). Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/) is the blog system adopted by Google and access is immediate from the GMail work environment.

What needs to be done?
Activity 5 is of a group nature and an individual nature. In this activity, the student will register a blog. Furthermore, the group of students will create a blog which, as has been explained previously, may be used as a record of the course in which the progress of each member of the group of students regarding the achievement of the aims marked by the subject is reflected. 
Key concepts of a blog that the student must know and make use of: 

• The design of the page template and the page elements 
• The creation of entries:
• • Managing the labels
  • Managing the comments
• The basic configuration of the blog
• The policy of permits both for the authors and the readers of the blog 

What must be handed in and how?
As far as the assessment of this activity is concerned, each individual blog is required to have:

• A minimum of three entries with labels
• Design of the blog header
• User profile edition
• Blog page elements:
• • Link blocks
  • Label blocks
  • RSS block
  • Tag clouds (optional)

When proposing this activity within the framework of everyday university teaching with a virtual classroom: the student must inform the teaching staff of his/her blog address and the group?s blog address. To this end, this activity will be confronted by sending a file with the two previously mentioned addresses. When mention is made of handing in the file, the teaching staff is referring to the fact that the student will respond to this task from within the Moodle platform (or similar) attaching the aforementioned file, which means that emails sent to the teaching staff will not be accepted. 

Nature of the tasks proposed
Group and individual. Compulsory
Estimated maximum time for their completion (including reading, group coordination, drawing up documents, etc.): 15 hours

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