Hello, Happy ChemBloggers.
Now it's time to begin investigating how we can use the blog resource for our research about news and issues in chemistry. Remember how to create a link list on your blog page? Go to customize (top right corner on your blog), add a new feature, link list.
You will begin doing online research about the topics you've chosen. The goal is to browse around, read about your potential topics, and find what truly interests you. Use the U of D database for your researching, as well. In order to keep track of your research, you will be creating a list of links to resources you found. If you find a good link, or something you want to read or find later, post the URL into your new Link List. (You might want to make several Link Lists, by topics that you're considering.) This Link List allows you to find these resources easily next time you're researching. It's a great tool. You can use it from any computer!!
Your assignment is:
1) to have at least 10 links in the new list.
2) then, post a "reflective" paragraph to your blog - talk about what you found out, discovered, didn't find out. . . while researching your topic. Perhaps it was difficult to search for your topic, or there was too much information. . . .Perhaps you have thought about narrowing your topic, or perhaps you've made a decision about what, exactly, your topic will be this term. Write about this first initial stage of your research.
3) Due by Monday, Dec 3 12:00 PM EST
Over and Out.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
NOW WHAT?
Okay, happy bloggers. You have some great blog pages set up. Now. . . .
1) Post about your ideas for research topics. Post at least three unless you are absolutely certain.
2) Then, visit 3 other blogs, read what other people are considering for topics and give them MEANINGFUL feedback. Provide reasons for why you like the ideas.
Due by 12:00 PM EST on Nov. 28, Wednesday
10 pts.
1) Post about your ideas for research topics. Post at least three unless you are absolutely certain.
2) Then, visit 3 other blogs, read what other people are considering for topics and give them MEANINGFUL feedback. Provide reasons for why you like the ideas.
Due by 12:00 PM EST on Nov. 28, Wednesday
10 pts.
THE FIRST STEP
What you'll need to do to get started is to visit the blogger.com website and create your own blog space. In order to have a blog space, you'll need to establish a Google account. (Blogger.com is a Google enterprise.)
At some point, when setting up the blog, you'll be asked to establish a URL identity. Pay attention to that, because other classmates will need that to link to your blog. Once you have your URL, put it up on the whiteboard along with your name, so we can link to your page.
The most important thing to do today is to learn how to include links - these links will be the URLs of the blogs of class members. Insert links for all of us on your page - there should be 16 (not you). Here's how to make a link list: Under the "template" tab option (top) for your blog, select the "page elements" tab, then "add a page element". Choose "link list", but before you do, check out all the other options for your page. The "list" option is nice for gathering research ideas. You may also want to use "link list" again when collecting URL's from your research.
After making your link list, save your blog, then try the links out in the "view" mode to make sure all the links work.
Now that you're all set up, you can customize the space in a lot of ways. Manuever around and explore how to reformat your space, re-colorize, etc. if you're into that sort of thing. Otherwise, the templates are pretty nice to use on their own. If you'd like to visit another classmate's blog, leave a constructive, complimentary comment for them about how their page looks. This is a first step in community exchange.
The goal is to have your blog space created and all class members linked by Wednesday's class, Nov 28.
At some point, when setting up the blog, you'll be asked to establish a URL identity. Pay attention to that, because other classmates will need that to link to your blog. Once you have your URL, put it up on the whiteboard along with your name, so we can link to your page.
The most important thing to do today is to learn how to include links - these links will be the URLs of the blogs of class members. Insert links for all of us on your page - there should be 16 (not you). Here's how to make a link list: Under the "template" tab option (top) for your blog, select the "page elements" tab, then "add a page element". Choose "link list", but before you do, check out all the other options for your page. The "list" option is nice for gathering research ideas. You may also want to use "link list" again when collecting URL's from your research.
After making your link list, save your blog, then try the links out in the "view" mode to make sure all the links work.
Now that you're all set up, you can customize the space in a lot of ways. Manuever around and explore how to reformat your space, re-colorize, etc. if you're into that sort of thing. Otherwise, the templates are pretty nice to use on their own. If you'd like to visit another classmate's blog, leave a constructive, complimentary comment for them about how their page looks. This is a first step in community exchange.
The goal is to have your blog space created and all class members linked by Wednesday's class, Nov 28.
A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS
This term we will investigate, research, and write about what's happening out in our world as it relates to chemistry. There are so many issues and interesting things going on, and tons of them are tied directly to chemistry.
Your goal: to choose a topic of interest to you, to explore current ideas, news and issues about the topic, to report about what's going on, and to reflect about your thoughts as it relates to what you're learning.
SELECT-EXPLORE-REPORT-REFLECT
Class goal: to use the blog as a tool in order to: read about what others are learning, communicate directly with classmates about what they're writing, and provide exchange feedback and dialogue about each other's information. READ-COMMUNICATE-EXCHANGE
Topics for exploration should be first and foremost things that interest you. Any topic is really okay, as long as it has some chemistry related to it. (And what topic is not, somehow, related to chemsitry?) The guiding question for your exploration and research should be "How is chemistry related to this issue?"
Here are some ideas of topics:
Issues: blood doping in sports, the impact of chemicals on global climate change, nuclear chemistry for energy, nuclear chemistry for weapons, pharmaceuticals - how to get chemicals to people who can't afford them, alternative fuels, are all these "energy drinks" going to cause problems, artificial sweetners, genetically modified foods, steroids in sports, ritalin and other medicines I might take, disposal of technological items (cell phones, computers) in the environment, pollution,
Curious: what's happening in HIV/AIDS medication research?, what's all the fuss about trans fats?, how effective are things like gatorade, vitamin water? water treatment plants, sewage systems, chemical toilets - how do they work?, diets? what's a liver for? pharmaceuticals-what's the latest and greatest out there, beauty products - what's the difference?,
Get the idea? Let's find out what to do first. . . . Read the next post.
Your goal: to choose a topic of interest to you, to explore current ideas, news and issues about the topic, to report about what's going on, and to reflect about your thoughts as it relates to what you're learning.
SELECT-EXPLORE-REPORT-REFLECT
Class goal: to use the blog as a tool in order to: read about what others are learning, communicate directly with classmates about what they're writing, and provide exchange feedback and dialogue about each other's information. READ-COMMUNICATE-EXCHANGE
Topics for exploration should be first and foremost things that interest you. Any topic is really okay, as long as it has some chemistry related to it. (And what topic is not, somehow, related to chemsitry?) The guiding question for your exploration and research should be "How is chemistry related to this issue?"
Here are some ideas of topics:
Issues: blood doping in sports, the impact of chemicals on global climate change, nuclear chemistry for energy, nuclear chemistry for weapons, pharmaceuticals - how to get chemicals to people who can't afford them, alternative fuels, are all these "energy drinks" going to cause problems, artificial sweetners, genetically modified foods, steroids in sports, ritalin and other medicines I might take, disposal of technological items (cell phones, computers) in the environment, pollution,
Curious: what's happening in HIV/AIDS medication research?, what's all the fuss about trans fats?, how effective are things like gatorade, vitamin water? water treatment plants, sewage systems, chemical toilets - how do they work?, diets? what's a liver for? pharmaceuticals-what's the latest and greatest out there, beauty products - what's the difference?,
Get the idea? Let's find out what to do first. . . . Read the next post.
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