Creating your Online Learning Journal

As part of this module you are expected to keep an Online Learning Journal and you will be given a task to update it each weekly between weeks 1 – 9. Your Online Learning Journal is essentially a ‘blog’. This is part of your assessment for this module, so will only be used for this purpose and kept private.

What is a blog?

• A blog is the term used for a ‘web log’, it is a type of personal website that is updated regularly and enables you to keep a log (by date) of your activities and in this case, what you are learning on this module.
• A blog is creative: you design how you want it to look and you can include text, images, web-links, videos and music, making it personal and visual.
• A blog can become part of an online community; you can share your blog with the world, just with friends or keep it private.
• A blog is a type of new media and will be an opportunity to experience new media first hand.

Aim of the Online Learning Journal

The aim of the Online Learning Journal is to have your own creative journal to collate your individual notes, reflections, web-links, research and written text over the module, which will be a valuable resource when approaching assignment 2: writing an academic essay.

Online Learning Journal Assignment

Each week you will be given a task to upload text or web-links to add to your Online Learning Journal. These will be checked each week and by week 9 you will have a minimum of five written blog posts (each 150-300 words long) and a minimum of twenty links. The deadline for the finished Online Learning Journal is 28/03/12 and this is 40% of your overall assessment in this module.

Your Online Learning Journal will be created using Blogspot – a popular blogging website, which is easy to use and make personal to you. Please follow the following guide to set up your Online Learning Journal: here referred to as a blog.

A guide to how to set up your Online Learning Journal is available in Blackboard.