FIRST WEEK BRIEF

First assignment (first studio)
There are two tasks today one computer task and one studio task.

Computer task,

+ Go to www.google.com and create a new gmail account (specifically used by blogger .com)

+Following the instructions of the blogger site (www.blogger.com) it is important you have your name as your blog address url, check availability, (blogger will come up with suggestions, if it has been already taken, ie if naomilamb is taken it might offer naomilamb2245 …)

+For assessment purposes you blog display name must be YOUR NAME.

+Set up a generic blog. Don’t worry too much at this stage about the look of your blog, you will be customising this later.

DON’T FORGET YOUR LOGIN NAME AND PASSWORD


Studio task
+ Using the project that you have chosen yesterday. Write 150 words that are CLEAR, CONSICE and COMPELLING to describe your project. This is your first blog post. Write as though you are talking to an audience.

What is it about? Who made it? When was it made?
Was it successful? Why did you choose it?

Home work. Look at other blogs relevant to your chosen design practice online.

Second studio

Uploading pictures and become a lurker(1).

+Email the url of your blog site to your tutors so that you can be linked to the main blogosphere site. (The specifics on how to do this will be clarified at the beginning of this session and outlined on the blogosphere site) this means we can start lurking.

+ Upload the picture that you have from your last semester project. Add that to the written post that you have already blogged.

+ Find a blog network and become a lurker

Reading blogs and looking at social networks without having any participation into that net work is called “lurking” this task introduces you to this concept.

+Research blogs of interest (relevant to your work) and choose three of the best.
+Embed the hyperlink of these three sites into your post (to do this find this icon on you “make a new post” page > )
+Write a brief overview 50-100 max words of your favorite THREE. (That’s no more than 100 words covering all three sites)
What information is conveyed and how these link together? What information is on the site, why does it interest you, how did you find them?
What’s the Look, vibe, style, stance or point?

+Add a list of labels to describe what you have found. (Labels link back to the keywords you use in your post)

(1) “Many modern Internet communities now advise newbies to lurk for some time to get a feel for the specific culture and etiquette of the community, lest they make an inappropriate or redundant comment, ask a Frequently Asked Question, or incite a flame war. This leads to the tongue-in-cheek command to "lurk moar". The verb to "de-lurk" means to start contributing actively to a community having been a lurker previously.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker