blog assignment #2: explore the web…
and report your findings….
Find one online news source and one blog (NOT a classmate’s blog) that interest you–create a brief (threeto five sentences) description of the site and put a link to it in your blog. This will create a collection of sites for the class to explore.
To create a link:
- Type the name of the site and highlight it
- Click on the icon at the top of your text box that shows a little chain link
- Enter the web address/URL of the site (For this you might want a second tab open with the site you are linking to; copy and paste the URL out of the address bar)
- Decide whether you want the link to open in the same window or a new one and click insert. Your highlighted text should now be a hyper-link.
Sites that might help you with this assignment:
technorati: tracks blogs on the web and what people are blogging about; check out “Top Blog Posts” for currently popular blogs; and see “What’s the Buzz” for what people are writing about and searching for. This should help you find an interesting blog.
salon : a news source that also includes links to blogs at the end of their articles.
