Reminder: When Blog Posts and Comments Are Due

I try to read and comment on your blog posts on Saturday and for some posts that come in early I might do some reading and commenting on Friday.  This is why the deadline for these posts is Friday evening.  Many of you have been getting your posts done after the deadline.  If you get it in on Saturday, you are probably okay, especially if I'm still reading other posts at the time yours comes in.   There have been one or two weekends where I couldn't finish all the posts on Saturdays and had to read some of them on Sunday morning.  It is then that I will accept posts coming in on Sunday.  However, once I'm done reading all the posts that have come in, I'm done for that week.  If you submit later than that I will not read your post and you won't get credit for submitting it.

Earlier in the semester I accommodated late posts because I wanted everyone to start on a good foot.  We're past that point now.  Please get your posts in before the deadline.

There is an additional requirement that you respond to my comment on your post with a comment of your own.  Preferably, that happens before class on Monday.  Truthfully, that is too hard for me to monitor on a regular basis.  However, when I graded your blog posts last week I did read all your comments.  Many students are not making them.  I urge you to do so.  Point-wise there are 50 points (5%) of your raw score allocated for comments.  More importantly for me as a teacher, I'd like to know that you've considered what I said and that we're having a little back and forth on your posts.  That is there to encourage your learning.

On Monday, I'll try to bring this mechanism into our discussion of the Daniel Pink video.  I wonder if you can connect the two before our class next meets.

Posts On Your Experience In Organizations

I've now read and commented on each post that has come in.  By my count, that is 17 out of 31 possible posts.  If you are one of those who has yet to write this post, if you get it done by tomorrow afternoon I will still read it and comment on it.  Otherwise, you will be out of luck.

And if you were one of those who did get this in on time, do note that I expect you to read my comments and respond to those with a comment of your own.  That is part of our process.  We'll discuss these in class on Monday.  I suspect there are not many of your classes where your experience is brought in to help explain the objects of study.  I hope that makes our class more enjoyable for you.

Setting up a blog for this class - part 2

This is the rest of the tutorial.

Setting up a blog for this class

As an alternative to the instructions below, you can use the campus blogging service at publish@illinois.  Then you log in with your NetID and password.  You can adjust your screen name to your alias, to protect your privacy.  But I don't know whether you can access the site after you graduate.   Also, for commenting on the class site you will either do that anonymously or use your real name.

As still one other alternative, you can have a blog in Moodle, which is then not publicly available.  Truthfully, this is much less convenient than the other alternatives.  But it protects your privacy the most because the the rest of the world doesn't have access to the Moodle class site.  If you want to pursue this alternative you must contact me about it.  I have to set it up for you.

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The instructions below and in the next post are aimed at setting up your blog so that you post under your alias - nobody outside the class will know who you are - and make sure that everybody understands this is a blog of a student, not of the person from whom the alias was constructed.

The video below was made for the class from two years ago.  It is applicable still, though Blogger has changed a bit since.  Also note, that it assumes you are making a new Gmail account just for this use.  As an alternative, you can use your non-university Gmail account equally well, if you are not already using Blogger with it.

The main thing is to use the Blogger Profile, not the Google Plus profile.  The Blogger Profile is what allows you to post under an alias.  See the image below.