Testing individual crickets will never work: A welcome to group H

Fancy meeting you here!

I am Floss and THIS is your ‘Blog Space’, a place where you reflect and share any thoughts or feels about the course content; both lectures and readings.

Before you ask, YES! This is a compulsory component of your BA1002 experience and a part of your grade! Looking forward to your upcoming posts! On this page, you will be posting, over the next 4 weeks (Week 3, 4, 5 & 6) your blog posts for BA1002.  You will need to post a total of three blog posts during this time, beginning week 3, by midnight Friday. ALL students MUST submit their first blog post by midnight Friday Week 3 (August 11^th). Feel free to comment on someone else's blog BUT, please be respectful and polite.

As your tutor, I will be providing general comments in our tutorial class on the first blog, so that you have formative feedback to help shape your subsequent blogs. After that, you'll blog every week between Weeks 3 and 6 (inclusive).  You will post by Friday midnight on this blogger site.  

Then, you will collate three of your best blog posts into a large document that we call the "Blog Portfolio" for submission via LearnJCU on Monday Sept 4th, Midnight. In the blog portfolio, you will include your three strongest blogs (in your opinion).

In consideration of the blog portfolio you are working toward, it's a good idea to copy and paste your blog posts into a Word document as you go, or to work from Word and copy your work into the blogger site. That way you always have a back-up copy and have a bank of your work already in Microsoft Word ready to work with when it comes to shaping your blogs into the Blog Portfolio for submission.

What do you include?  Remember the magic number 6 in this class. You will need 6 elements in the blog. A list of these can be found on the BA1002 Libguide Exemplar and in your Subject Outline.

Remember to include a picture and to credit the image source.

Image credit: Color me read (2016)

Your blog posts should be around 500 words. They are designed to keep you accountable to your readings.  You need to reference (using APA format) at least one of the assigned weekly readings, like Foucault's extended metaphor of Bentham's panopticon to think about surveillance culture in the online world (Turkle, 1995, p.248). Use its ideas to frame your own or to bounce your own ideas off.  It's great to use the scholarly readings for precise definitions, for example, of power, or networked narratives, or to introduce scholarly concepts that inform your post. Don't forget to reference the weekly lecture, too (Kuttainen, 2016).

Check out the Tutorial Guide in your weekly Subject Materials folder for Blog Prompt Questions. You don't need to answer each of these questions systematically, and you are free to address something else if you'd prefer--but the main gist is that you need to think about how the subject's weekly lecture theme and readings inform something you observe about the virtual social network which you are considering for this class. The blogs are therefore also designed to prompt you to apply the academic concepts to observations about everyday life.  

They are excellent practice at writing and referencing as well. While you can use an informal tone, you need to ensure you are writing in a grammatical and precise way. Have fun, though; tick the boxes of what you HAVE to do, but feel free to be creative within the bounds of this assignment to explore what you CAN do. 

Have fun and happy blogging! 

References
Color me read. (2016). A Post About Memes. Retrieved July 28 2017 from http://color-me-read.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/i-meme-it.html

How-to-write-a-blog-post. (n.d.). From How to Write a Blog Post. Retrieved August 1 2014 from http://www.deanethridge.com/internet-marketing/how-to-write-a-blog-post/

Kuttainen, Victoria. (2016). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, Lecture 2: Power. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.