Several students have asked me what is the best way to do a blog post. I don't think that there is one definitive answer to the question. Ultimately, I think that the blogger wishes to share some idea or resources with an audience. Let's use this blog post as an example. I wanted to let my readers (students in the class) know about a few tools I've been using in my online life that might be relevant to the work we are doing in this class. I then composed the following post:
I recently discovered a useful blog which features free online resources for students and educators called DE Tools of the Trade.
The image with the post was found on one of the sites mentioned on the DE Tools blog. I used another image from Design Comics in the Test VoiceThread that appeared in an earlier blog post here. Check the class moodle to find a few sample images if you are interested in this sort of thing.
To add the text caption to the image, I uploaded the image I got from Design Comics to Aviary which is a free online image editing site. After I edited the file in Aviary, I then uploaded it to blogger and made this post.
All of this is to say, that I believe that in addition to the message you compose for your blog posts, it is also worthwhile to include images and links to outside sources that might be of interest to your readers.
Any thoughts?
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