Today's session

We've got a lot to fit in today. Last week I asked you to think about an idea for your assessment blog. Today, I'm going to try to talk to each of you individually about your idea and how best to develop it. I think that if you want to make the assessment less pressured, it would be a good idea to set up and start your blogs next week. That gives you more time to reach the target number of posts (20).

I'm going to quickly demo Wordpress to you as well. This is another free blogging service. Some of you are already using it. It offers a bit more functionality than Blogger, especially in terms of the media you can add to a blog. So it's worth looking at it and trying it out. But if you're happy with Blogger, that's also fine.

Next, we'll have a quick chat about how you managed with last week's homework - using Google Reader and Google News for a week to see if they changed the way you consumed journalism/news online.

Next, we're going to look at personal journalism and workplace blogs. We're also going to look at 'challenge journalism' and diary format features and think a bit about how they might work on a blog. The idea is to help you develop an idea for your assessment blog if you don't already have one.