It is good to see that you got your blog started. Blogger and Facebook have many similarities in regard to uploading different types of files and some social networking capabilities, but the main difference is that Blogger is more like a journal. In this "journal", you will be posting the following:
1. Posts on your progress in connecting with the campus organization you would like to work with for your semester research project, and the progress that you make with them in developing your research/project proposal;
2. Posts on your research challenges and if you are able to resolve them or not. These challenges may come from what we do in IM 204, research for other assignments, or research that might not necessarily be for school. (For example, I love nature and pay a lot of attention to the animals, birds, and insects in my environment. When I first moved here, I discovered a critter who lived under my porch. I didn't know if he would count as a squirrel, a chipmunk, or a prairie dog, and so I was not too sure how to start finding out what the name of this animal was as I only had a picture of him in my mind. That is one thing we can't do with computers yet--put our forehead on the screen and upload an image from our mind for the computer to translate into words. And so I have to use another strategy to find out the name of this creature. I found a visual field guide of Minnesota wildlife in the library, and that helped solve the mystery of the thirteen lined ground squirrel);
3. Examples from books, news articles, or websites where critical thinking has gone wrong. (We will be talking about critical thinking later this week, so don't worry if this one makes no sense yet.)
If you are still kind of confused as to what to post in your blog, you can always take a look at mine: Cleaning the Cluttered Brain (www.cleaningtheclutteredbrain.blogspot.com) to get an idea.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and see you on Monday... R. Wexelbaum
Hi Ian,
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see that you got your blog started. Blogger and Facebook have many similarities in regard to uploading different types of files and some social networking capabilities, but the main difference is that Blogger is more like a journal. In this "journal", you will be posting the following:
1. Posts on your progress in connecting with the campus organization you would like to work with for your semester research project, and the progress that you make with them in developing your research/project proposal;
2. Posts on your research challenges and if you are able to resolve them or not. These challenges may come from what we do in IM 204, research for other assignments, or research that might not necessarily be for school. (For example, I love nature and pay a lot of attention to the animals, birds, and insects in my environment. When I first moved here, I discovered a critter who lived under my porch. I didn't know if he would count as a squirrel, a chipmunk, or a prairie dog, and so I was not too sure how to start finding out what the name of this animal was as I only had a picture of him in my mind. That is one thing we can't do with computers yet--put our forehead on the screen and upload an image from our mind for the computer to translate into words. And so I have to use another strategy to find out the name of this creature. I found a visual field guide of Minnesota wildlife in the library, and that helped solve the mystery of the thirteen lined ground squirrel);
3. Examples from books, news articles, or websites where critical thinking has gone wrong. (We will be talking about critical thinking later this week, so don't worry if this one makes no sense yet.)
If you are still kind of confused as to what to post in your blog, you can always take a look at mine: Cleaning the Cluttered Brain (www.cleaningtheclutteredbrain.blogspot.com) to get an idea.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and see you on Monday...
R. Wexelbaum