Some reminders for Year 1 Intro to Online Journalism students

Hi, Year 1s. A couple of reminders.

First, get into the spirit of debate in the blogosphere by leaving a comment on this blog and/or on one or more of your classmates' blogs. Just visit the blog and click on the 'comments' link at the foot of the posting on which you want to comment.

Second, we have talked a bit about how search engines work. Use the 'Gadgets' feature on Blogger to add a list of your favourite links to your blog page. It'll look like the Links section on my pages - that's the bit under my BlogRoll. Add a link to this blog and the class blogs that you like and/or which are relevant to your own blog (eg if you have a sports blog, you could link to the other sports blogs). Linking to one another's blogs like this will improve the visibility of the class blogs on Google.

When we set up our blogs, most or all of us selected the option to moderate comments before they go live online. So log in regularly to see if any comments have been submitted. Open up the comments and read them. If they are not libellous, obscene etc then click on the 'Publish' link to make them go live.