Semester Blogging Assignment- How, Why, When, and What (The Who is YOU)

OK folks, time to get to work. In addition to getting the materials ready to scan for this class, and teaching the class, I'm also the technical supervisor for 3 Capstone projects this semester, all of which had to get rolling these last weeks. So I'm behind a bit, but done whining, and time to get started.

Except now it's a sunny, 70 degree Sunday in January... time to sit outside and blog I guess.. I hope you do yours Tuesday evening, when the forecast is for 23 degrees..

I use Blogger.com to track my work time and things I do for my regular job at the iSchool, so I'm comfortable with the tool. What I don't use Blogger for is blogging, yet.

Jessica is the driving force behind this, and she has lots of good reasons, all of which I support. The big one for me is not being trapped in BlackBoard, it will take a lot of work to blog for this class, and you should get some lasting benefit from this effort, and this class. Your blog for this class should be a series of posts about the digitization universe, and the areas you are interested in. You must also think of it as just another thing you can add to your resume in search of a job.

Take a look at what Jessica is doing with hers. It shows a broad and growing interest in lots of things, and could, for better or for worse, give an employer a bit more insight into what your interests, and abilities, really are. It's a good thing, and like many things in the "social network" of the Web these days, can also be a bad thing. You get to chose, but for the purposes of this class, you learn to play the game so you can make an educated decision.

Jessica covers the "How" to blog in the Course Documents section of BlackBoard, I just covered the "Why" we are blogging, now the "What" and "When".

"What" to blog? What are you interested in? That will be one thing to blog, where digitization is concerned. I may also ask you to blog on a certain topic, which I will request, and will serve as a minimum for grading.

"When" to blog? When you want to, and when I ask you to. Like, now.

Here is your first "official" blogging assigment! Please title it "My history of digitization".

In my next post, I'll demonstrate what I'm looking for.

Thanks! Q