Kitty-surveillance Engaged: The Art of Blogging for BA1002

Welcome Tutorial F students,

I am Cat and this is your blog site. On this page, you will be posting, over the next 4 weeks all of your blog posts for BA1002, in Week 3, 4, 5 & 6.

You will need to post a total of at least three blog posts during this time, beginning week 3, by midnight Friday.

ALL students MUST submit their first blog post by midnight Friday Week 3 (August 11^1th). Feel free to comment on someone else's blog. In fact, please do comment on each other's blogs, but engage respectfully. We want to build networked communication into this subject.

As your tutor, I will be providing general comments in our tutorial class on the first blog, so that you have formative feedback to help shape your subsequent blogs. After that, you'll blog every week between Weeks 3 and 6 (inclusive).  You will post by Friday midnight on this blogger site.  

Then, you will collate three of your best blog posts into a large document that we call the "Blog Portfolio" for submission via LearnJCU on Monday Sept 4th, Midnight. In the blog portfolio, you will include your three strongest blogs (in your opinion).

In consideration of the blog portfolio you are working toward, it's a good idea to copy and paste your blog posts into a Word document as you go, or to work from Word and copy your work into the blogger site. That way you always have a back-up copy and have a bank of your work already in Microsoft Word ready to work with when it comes to shaping your blogs into the Blog Portfolio for submission. 

What do you include in your blog?  Remember the magic number 6 in this class. The 6 elements you need to include in each blog appear on the BA1002 Libguide Exemplar and in your Subject Outline.  Remember to include a picture and to credit the image source.

Image Credit: http://graceelliot-author.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/

 Your blog posts should be around 500 words each. They are designed to keep you accountable to completing your assigned readings.  Check out the Tutorial Guide in your weekly Subject Materials folder for Blog Prompt Questions. You don't need to answer each of these questions systematically, and you are free to address something else if you'd prefer—but the key is that you need to think about how the subject's weekly lecture theme and readings inform something you observe about the virtual social network which you are considering for this class. The blogs are therefore also designed to prompt you to apply the academic concepts to observations about everyday life.  

They are excellent practice at writing and referencing as well. While you can use a slightly informal tone, you need to ensure you are writing in a grammatical and precise way, and that you are following the conventions of APA in-text referencing and reference lists. Have fun, though; tick the boxes of what you HAVE to do, but feel free to be creative within the bounds of this assignment to explore what you CAN do. Have fun and happy blogging!