Sure, you can ask questions on the Blackboard discussion board too. But for those of you who have come over to visit the blog and want to make a comment, why not make it an assignment question? If you're new to blogging, I'll bet you have heaps!
Or, perhaps you can answer a question of mine?
- do you already have a blog? (where is it??)
- are you looking forward to blogging on the topics in the assignment? (have you looked to see what they are??)
- what are the challenges faced by people new to blogging?
I look forward to seeing comments here as people tune in :)
Hi there, should we link this blog to our group blog? Thanks, Deb
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI am new to blogging and am feeling a bit daunted by the prospect. Is it appropriate to develop the assignment as an ongoing blog or should each part be presented as a done deal?
Thanks for this blog, it is very useful.
Karen
Debbie, that would be lovely! A very relevant link for your blog to have :)
ReplyDeleteHi Karen - welcome to the bloggosphere!
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, everyone finds it daunting at first. It sometimes feels like learning read a different language or live in a different land. And in a way, you are :)
Answer: YES you should be adding to you blog progressively. By adding something to the blog you will give the other members of your group something to COMMENT on, which is also required.
If I can give some advice, it is to try and post something. It can be anything, even a brief hello to your group members. Your audience for your writing is a) your actual group members; b) potential public viewers, including Helen and I. Try out the formatting; make something bold, something italic, something hyperlinked. We don't tend to use underlining on the web because it makes things look like a hyperlink (so there's free tip!)
Check back in if you have more questions, or tips to share.
Hi Kelli,
ReplyDeleteam wondering about the correct way to refer to a website in your own blog posting when you are quoting specifically from it (a page on a website) and you can't see a date, copyright info or who has made the contribution to the page of the site you are on???
Hi Bronwyn,
ReplyDeleteThat description raises a lot of flags for me as a critical reader! It makes me wonder if the information is out of date, and how credible the source is.
Can you share the website with us so we can take a look?
Generally, what I think you should do is reference it like this:
[author = the site owner], [date = "n.d." for 'no date'], [title of the webpage], [URL], ["last accessed..." = the date today]
It is also best practice to hyperlink some of your reference, or a part of your post, to the actual website to make it easy for people to 'click through' themselves.
Hope that helps! Thanks for asking - great question :)
yes, I had already organised a hyperlink, and it is an ABC website and you can see by some of the postings on the site that it is very current, just not when the actual ABC's info was posted in the body of the website if that makes sense?? The page of the website I wanted to quote from is: http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/stories/2011/01/3108633.htm
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your advice!
A-ha! This is a tricky one...but one we can crack by looking at the URL extension. Take a look and see if you can tell what the date of publication was from the URL:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/heywire/stories/2011/01/3108633.htm
It definitely appears to be from 2011, so that's enough for your APA style reference. Beyond that I might *guess* it is from January from the '01', but that's only a guess, and not one we need to make.
If I hadn't have seen that, my next step would have been to open some of the Heywire Resource Guide pdfs to see if they had a publication year. If so, I'd try to reference the more formally published resource rather than the website, if possible. Or continued to refer to the website using the (n.d.) convention to represent 'no date' was discernable.
Any other challenging references out there?? That was a good one!