Home. If you have set up your blog and know how to create and edit entries, this page will teach you about helping your peers find your work.
If you are asked to read and comment on your peer's blog entries, finding out who has posted on what can be a bit of a bother. You can look on the course website for a list of links to peer blogs. But sometimes when you're looking for a list of who has finished a particular assignment, it helps to have more specific information.
Here is a screenshot showing the entries students posted on a particular assignment.
In order to make these excerpts appear on this site, these students clicked on the link "MT QuickPost," which will pops up a window asking them to log in (if necessary), then asks them to select a weblog to publish on (they chose their personal blogs, rather than the New Media Journalism community blog).
From that window, you can type a new entry that will appear on your blog.their blog entry.
When you click "Post," this entry will appear on your blog. You can go back and edit like any other blog entry if you wish.
In addition, a "Trackback" will appear on the course website, telling everyone that you have posted an entry on this topic.
Sometimes Trackback doesn't work right. In that case, your entry will appear on your blog normally, but the link won't appear on the course website. No need to panic -- just post a quick message that includes the full web address of your blog entry.
The home page of your blog is "http://blogs.setonhill.edu/FirstnameLastname", but the full URL of an individual blog entry will look something like this:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/10/adventures_of_h_1.html
25 Jan 2005 -- first posted by Dennis G. Jerz