Welcome Tutorial 8 students,

I am Naama and this is your blog site. On this page, you will be posting, over the next 4 weeks (Week 3, 4, 5 & 6) your blog posts for BA1002.  You will need to post a total of three blog posts during this time, beginning week 3, by midnight Friday. ALL students MUST submit their first blog post by midnight Friday Week 3 (August 12^th). Feel free to comment on someone else's blog. BUT, please be respectful and polite. Copy and paste your full blog portfolio to a Word document and submit it on LearnJCU (in the assessment tab) by Monday 5pm, Week 7. We will be giving non-personalised feedback in class on the first blog, so that you have formative feedback to help you with your subsequent blogs. After that, you'll blog every week by Friday midnight, collating three of your blog posts into a large document that we call the "Blog Portfolio" for submission via LearnJCU on Monday Week 7. In the blog portfolio, you will include your first blog plus two other blogs (3 total). This gives you some leeway to choose your strongest blogs.

What do you include?  Remember the magic number 6 in this class. The 6 elementsyou need to include in each blog appear on the BA1002 Libguide Exemplar and in your Subject Outline.

Remember to include a picture and to credit the image source.

Photo credit: https://kerns5.wordpress.com/

Your blog posts should be around 300 words. They are designed to keep you accountable to your readings.  Check out the Tutorial Guide in your weekly Subject Materials folder for Blog Prompt Questions. You don't need to answer each of these questions systematically, and you are free to address something else if you'd prefer--but the main gist is that you need to think about how the subject's weekly lecture theme and readings inform something you observe about the virtual social network which you are considering for this class. The blogs are therefore also designed to prompt you to apply the academic concepts to observations about everyday life.  

They are excellent practice at writing and referencing as well. While you can use an informal tone, you need to ensure you are writing in a grammatical and precise way. Have fun, though; tick the boxes of what you HAVE to do, but feel free to be creative within the bounds of this assignment to explore what you CAN do. Have fun and happy blogging! 

* And thanks to Cat for putting together these instructions and allowing me to copy them!