Possible Syllabus

Here’s a tentative scheduled for the rest of the semester. The key word is “tentative.” Remember to keep up with last-minute details in class.

• March 26: Story ideas, post anecdote, choose blog
• March 31: Blog quiz, How-to article 2 posted
• April 2: Story ideas, post anecdote, choose blog
• April 7: Blog quiz, Feature article
• April 9: Story ideas, anecdote, choose blog
• April 14: Blog quiz, feature article
• April 16: Story ideas, anecdote, choose blog
• April 21: Blog quiz, feature article
• April 23: Final anecdote, last-minute details
• April 28: Final

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Social Media in Plain English

Since we’re talking social media for the rest of the semester, this little proverb may come in handy.

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Useful site

As you continue to develop your writing, here is a useful site for tips.

Copyblogger

Read it. Know it. Love it. Bookmark it.

Trouble with Today

The Proposal

This video was posted via vodpod plug-in. It’s the same one as below, but was posted via a different method.

A man struggles to pop the question to his girlfriend.

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Embedding video

1. Write your post in the Visual form.

2. Find a good video you’d like to share (you tube is a source)

3. Copy the embed code from YouTube. Remember to do this in HTML mode.

4. Try it.

Out of the Fog

A quick note about the Readability.info tool currently used for your posts. Take time to read through all of the results, not just the Fog score (although you’ll include the Index score at the bottom of you posts, as in here).

Take a minute to read the “sentence info” section, particularly the percentage of passive sentences. I can almost guarantee that the lower the percentage of passive sentences, the more readable the post.

So take note and have a good weekend.

Fog Index=9.5, School Year=6, Passive Sentences=0

New blog, Fog index link

This week’s blog reading, Dot Earth, can be found below. Be sure to read posts from Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Also, remember that for the time being, please place your posts through the Readability.info site and type the Fog Index at the bottom of your post.

Survey now active

The Warner University Online Publication survey is in full swing and the response has been going well. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please do. If you’d like for some of your friends to fill it out, direct them to this post.

A reminder

I’ve noticed that some of you have changed the headlines of your first blog, but not the blog text. It’s not enough to just change the headline, actually write something.

Of course, I’m sure you were planning to do that anyway, but it’s just a reminder.

You’ll also notice that I’ve added another RSS feed that links directly to this week’s blog.