#4 - Keeping track & more about blogging

If you’ve made it this far, you already have 3 items or “things” completed of the 27 that are required to earn a USB MP3 player.

But how do you qualify? You'll need to register your blog and, each week, record your progress on each of the 27 things.

Where? How?

A Learning 2.0 Progress Log is on the KCLS intranet - you'll submit your information to the Learning 2.0 Team and will receive confirmation emails.

Many many thanks to Lisa at Web Services for setting this up.

The log is extremely easy to use - go the the main log page (this is a staff-only link - it's also been added to the right as part of the Learning 2.0 Link Box), enter your information, check off the 'things' that you've completed, add the URL for your weekly blog posting, and click submit.

Weekly blog posting?

That's right - starting next week you also need to include the URL for the permanent link to your weekly blog posts. Your blog postings should capture your thoughts about what you're learning and responses to any specific questions we ask about the 'things' we'll be looking at.

Permanent link?

Each blog posting has a distinct URL that displays that posting alone (without the rest of your blog postings). Depending upon the Blogger template that you selected, the permanent link for each individual post can be found either through the post’s title or through a link in the post's footer area the contains the date.

For example: The image below shows where you would find the permanent link for this earlier Learning 2.0 blog post - click on the time of posting (but in a real-life blog post, not in the image):

This is the link that you want to use when recording your progress in the Learning 2.0 Progress Log.

You can also, in most blog interfaces, click on the posting title for the permanent URL.

Here's how you would record your blog URLs in the Learning 2.0 Progress Log:


The Learning 2.0 Team will be reading your blog postings and, on occasion, giving you feedback via your blog entry's comments field.

Yes, comments. That's the beauty of blogging - your readers get to respond to what you've written. The Learning 2.0 Team will be commenting for sure, though you never know what your co-workers will have to say - everyone's blog will be posted to the Learning 2.0 KCLS Staff Participants page (but don't worry - we'll be listing these by your anonymous blog name). And don't forget - you can respond to a comment with a comment of your own. Me, I'm not yet sure how to respond to this one...


Comments are all about interacting and collaborating. Leave us a comment today or, better yet, start reading your co-worker's blogs next week and leave comments for them.

But first things first - it's time to take care of today's Discovery Exercise.

Discovery Exercise - record your first 4 completed things.

1. Head over to the Learning 2.0 Progress Log
   
2. Record your first 4 completed things (including filling out the log for the first time).
   
3. Click submit.
   

And with that you have just 23 more things to go...

Next up: Flickr...