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Tips for student bloggers
Posted by: cynmccune on: February 3, 2008
Here’s a helpful blog post by Karen Miller Russell, a PR professor at the University of Georgia, with tips for developing a successful student blog. It’s got some good ideas for blog post topics, and for getting your blog noticed.
Help…my blog post didn’t publish!
Posted by: cynmccune on: February 2, 2008
- In: How-to's| blogging
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A couple of you have run into problems getting your assignments to publish on your blog. There is a trick to it. Here’s how Blogger works: The first time you save a blog post, clicking on the “save now” button only saves it as a draft. It does not publish it. To publish a blog [...]
Welcome to Journalism 61
Posted by: cynmccune on: January 13, 2008
This blog serves as the home page of the online section of Journalism 61.
To get started in the class, you’ll need to email me at cynthia.mccune [at] sjsu.edu to confirm that you’ve registered for the class. That will be my cue to add you to my email list for the class. Some assignments will [...]
Blogging assignment – s. 4
Posted by: cynmccune on: October 19, 2007
Section 4 students: Toward the end of last Tuesday’s class, I sent you out to observe the close of SJSU’s commemoration of the day 39 years ago when Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists during a medals ceremony at the 1968 Olympics. I told you to observe the scene and blog about [...]
Putting blogs to work
Posted by: cynmccune on: September 14, 2007
Wondering how you might put a blog to good use (other than for posting your class assignments or for personal journaling)? You might want to take a look at JMC grad student Ryan Sholin’s blog, Invisible Inkling.
He’s used his blog as a venue to explore his chosen field of online journalism, and to make a [...]
Where’s my blog…and how do I post an assignment?
Posted by: cynmccune on: September 2, 2007
- In: Class info| How-to's| blogging
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Note: This is for you blogging newbies. I’m basing this on some of the things I remember being confused about when I first started blogging.
So you’ve created a blog…now, how do you find your way back to it…and how do you post your assignments on it?
Before you can post an assignment, or edit a [...]
Your First Assignment
Posted by: cynmccune on: August 24, 2007
Here’s your first assignment: start your own blog! The easiest way to do that is to sign up for a blog at Blogger.com. Just click on the orange “create your blog now” arrow and fill in the blanks.
You’ll need to decide on a name for your blog (e.g., Cynthia’s blog, Kelly’s Jour61 Blog or The [...]
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