Starting your blog:
2. Click “New Blog” on the left hand side of the
screen. You may name your blog however
you like.
3. After creating your first blog entry (see below), send me
an email with the subject line “’YOUR NAME’ BLOG”. (For example, I would type “MCCUNE BLOG”) In
the body of the email give me the URL for your blog. (For example, my blog is
at www.mat110mccune.blogspot.com.)
Privacy Settings:
You may decide whether you want your blog to be private or
public. The blog will default to
public. You can change the privacy
settings by clicking on the settings icon to the left of the screen when you
are in your blog. Under “Basic”, choose
click the “Edit” button next to Privacy to remove your blog from Blogger
listings and to make it invisible to search engines. You can scroll down to “Permissions” to
limit your blog readers. If you don’t want your blog to remain
public, you must add me (lmccune@missouriwestern.edu)
as a reader. To do this, click on “Edit” next to “Blog
Reader” and choose the option “Private – Only these readers”. You may add my email to the list of
readers. You may also choose to limit
your readers to only your classmates.
Following Blogs:
Go to www.blogger.com/home. Scroll down to “Reading List” and click “add”
on the left-hand side of the screen. You
should add my blog for this class: www.mat110mccune.blogspot.com.
Your first Blog entry:
After creating your blog, you can create a new post in one
of two ways:
1.
From www.blogger.com/home,
click on the orange button with the pencil to write a new post for your blog.
2.
From your blog overview, click on the orange
button labeled “New post” to create a new post.
In your first blog
post, tell me a little about yourself.
You should answer the following questions: What was the last math class you had? Why are you taking MAT110? Our semester will be broken up into three
topics: Graph Theory, Financial Mathematics, and Probability and
Statistics. What do you think each of
these topics is about? What do you hope to learn in each of these topics?
General Blog post
Guidelines:
You will be asked to make a post each week to your
blog. Blog posts should be posted after
class on Wednesday and before Sunday at 11:59pm CST for the previous week. Each week you should fill in the following
sentences in your post.
1.
I thought ________________________ was the most
interesting thing discussed this week because __________________________.
2.
I thought _____________________ was the most
challenging topic discussed this week because ________________________.
3.
I’d like to learn more about/spend more time on
_________________________ in class because __________________________.
4.
I’d like to spend less time on
________________________ in class because _________________.
5.
What is something we discussed this week that
you can see yourself using (either directly or indirectly) after this
semester? How and why?
You may complete your post with a free discussion on
anything related to our class. Some
ideas of things to discuss are how you feel the class is progressing, things I
can do to better facilitate your learning, specific questions you have about
problems discussed in class, applications of the material we are learning to
your life outside of MAT110, links to articles/websites related to our
discussions in class, etc.
In addition, you will occasionally be asked to write more
detailed blog posts. Such posts may
include solving a problem, researching a topic discussed in class more in depth
and reporting on your findings, or responding to an article related to the
mathematics discussed in class. For
these posts, you will be provided a prompt at www.mat110mccune.blogspot.com.
You are encouraged to read one another’s blogs and leave
your comments. Please remember to be
respectful in your posts and comments.
You should follow the guidelines set out in the MWSU Student Code of
Conduct available at https://www.missouriwestern.edu/studentaffairs/student-code-of-conduct/.
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