Blog ISP - Instructions and Intro

Well, if you're reading this, you properly read instructions and successfully navigated to this page.

Your semester long task:

(i) Maintain your own personal blog over the course of the semester that reflects upon current events happening in our world and connecting them to themes and concepts learned in our course, Sports and Entertainment Marketing. (Avg - 1 post every 2 weeks)
(ii) Read and respond to your peers' blogs and meaningfully contributing to discussions arising from those posts.

How much is it worth? Your personal current events blog will be part of the final evaluation allotment, worth 5% of your final overall grade in the course. (Rubric distributed in class).  Recall, this class does not have a final exam. :-)

What do I need to do?
- Check out an online news outlet (some suggestions to follow)

- Pick a current event/article that interests you and relates to the marketing/business of sports and/or entertainment (perhaps you look up something you heard about in the media beforehand, etc.)

- Write a blog based on this news.  Break it down as follows:

(i) Brief summary of article/event
(ii) How it relates to the Marketing/Business of Sports and Entertainment and key concepts/themes in the course
(iii) Your opinion and reflection on this news (could be as separate paragraph(s) or included throughout blog)
(iv) Link the article and link/post any photos, videos, etc.

An exemplar blog entry will be posted to give you an idea of the expectation.  Nothing to sweat!  This semester-long task is not meant to be stressful, but rather interesting, fun and an introduction to post-secondary learning that often occurs in an online, collaborative environment.

FOLLOWERS:

Every student needs to follow all other students' blogs.  This will enable you to see new posts and  subsequently respond to the post and/or discussion.  I will collect all students' Blog URL's and will distribute to everyone so you can add them.

NOTE: BE SURE TO BE AWARE OF THE PRIVACY SETTINGS...IF YOU ONLY WANT YOUR FOLLOWERS TO SEE YOUR BLOG, CLICK THE APPROPRIATE PRIVACY SETTING.  IF YOU WANT ALL VIEWERS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR BLOG, THEN THAT IS UP TO YOU.  EITHER WAY, BE WEARY OF RESPONSIBLE BLOGGING PRACTICES AND RESPONSIBLE INTERNET ACTIVITY AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

I am sure we will all get comfortable with all the functionality and tools as we play around with them.  I will proceed to make two blog examples.  The first is just introductory.  The second will be an example of a regular, subsequent post to make in the semester.

Good luck,

Mr. Lamanna