Use this checklist to wrap up your project

Does your blog have…?

A nice and meaningful DESIGN with…

   a personal TITLE  -   a subtitle   - a good HEADER IMAGE

A clear STRUCTURE with …

- A MAIN PAGE (or HOME page) with 2 or 3 posts about different aspects of your project topic.

- An INTRODUCTORY PAGE for the general information about your topic, the reasons why you think it’s interesting and how you will organise the material.

 - An “ABOUT” PAGE with information about yourselves

Good CONTENT:

(1)   Sufficient information about the project in the introductory page. (2)  Relevant information about the topic in the two or three posts. (3)  Good illustrations.

A BLOG-ROLL type widget with additional information: links, visited pages.

Spring Day for Europe 2009

 

Read about SPRING DAY for Europe and give your opinion

Would you like to take part?  Check out the proposals for contributions:

• Activities
• Competitions
• Chats
• etc.

 

What do you know about this image?              Who is the autthor?                                             Can you say where and when it was painted?

Submit your comment in answer to these questions.

PICTURES

Mosaics 1

HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR MATERIAL

1. Create a PAGE

- to help your readers know what they can find in your blog,

- to convince them it is interesting,

- to orientate them so they know how you organized your information ,

- to explain why you chose that topic.

2. Write different POSTS

- to develop the parts, aspects or chapters of your project.

3. Create a list of interesting links

- set a new link category “to know more…”

- it will appear in your blog’s side-bar.

GET STARTED

STEP ONE: CREATE A NEW PAGE: this will be dedicated to explain the contents of your project, how it is organised, what your readers will find in it, etc.

STEP TWO: DESIGN YOUR FIRST POST

STEP THREE: MAKE A LIST OF YOUR LINKS

Project agenda

Work plan for January 23rd and 30th

1.  Answer this QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT YOUR PROJECT

2.   Open a  NEW POST and use it as a general draft for your project containing:

• Brief explanation
• Projects parts
• Type of content
• Interesting links: COPY-PASTE all addresses you find that can be useful to develop your project.

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW PROJECT!

How to take decisions and structure your project: 

Decide on the type  product:

• a study, a survey, a report
• a proposal to organise an event or to solve a problem
• an information centre
• a campaign to spread some ideas
• a trip

Define the topic  and content .

Make an agenda. 

Write an intoduction.

A couple of conditions and a piece of advice:

• Your work should be restricted to the European environment in general.
• It has to make reference or connect with the ideas of “European Year of Creativity and Innovation”
• Make it SIMPLE & SPECIFIC

Your task for November 24th

1. Go to your about page. Read the teacher’s commentand follow the instructions.
2. Then review your blog (home) page and complete the missing tasks or parts of tasks.
3. Copy this link in your post “Europe in my Map” and play the game of the European capitals:                                              http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe/Eur_G2_Caps_1280_800.html
4. Say which are your favourite countries (maximum 3) and choose one country you would like to dig.

Check your Europe! Are you smart at maps?

 Check your map power

THESE ARE YOUR TASKS FOR TODAY  3rd November, 2008

1. Prepare a new post: “Europe in my Map”
2. Learn how to insert a link into your post..
3. Insert this link:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe/Eur_G2_1024_768.html
4. Now open the game on that link. Can you fill the map of Europe?
5. How did you do? Can you evaluate yourselves? Write a comment.
6. When you finish come back and answer this poll  

Hello 1bA

This is your first work plan from the blog. Today we are:

1. Linking this blog to yours: www.elosyear1.wordpress.com
2. Checking your blogs design: header, title, subtitle
3. Making sure that your ABOUT page shows enough information about yourself
4. Writing your first post telling about working in the ELOS project with the blog
5. Inserting a picture