Setting up your course blog
As this is a course focusing on digital literacies, blogging is a requirement for learners who wish to be assessed for formal credit. We strongly encourage learners who are participating in the course out of self interest to establish a course blog as this will improve your skills and enable you to network with your peers.
You can use any blog platform which has the capabilities to tag or label posts. OERu (whom you are suggested to register your blog with) currently supports WordPress or Blogger. (They may not be able to harvest posts for the course feed using blogging platforms which do not support categories, tags, or labels.) If you would like to use your existing blog, OERu will harvest posts which are tagged or labelled using the course code:”lida101“. However, you may prefer to set up a new dedicated course blog.
The first learning challenge for this course will take you through the steps to set up your blog.
Overview of the steps to set up your blog
| Actions | Additional resources |
|---|---|
| Create a blog account | |
| Configure your blog | Customise preferences (including settings for comments) and personalise the layout of your blog: |
| Post your first blog entry and “declare” yourself | Learners are invited to compete the learning outcome actions for the: Declare yourself learning challenge. |
| Register your blog url | Remember to register your blog url with OERu on their course site by clicking on the user icon in the site menu and filling out the url for your course blog. Tips:
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