Your Blog

Updating your Blog

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As we move into A2 production you will need to update your blog. This means:

  • A new brief on the home page, which you can access through ‘Pages’ rather than ‘Posts’.
  • New menu items for the new production tasks and Creative Critical Reflections.
  • A new menu system, which lists your production work under:
    • Component 1 (The Music Magazine)
    • Component 2 (The Cross Media Production)

Please carefully read and follow the instructions in  this document, which give a step by step guide to updating your blog.

This also means a new blog league, which you can find in the new menu at the top of this blog.

Previous Students’ Work

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How will we mark your product?

Please work through the questions in this slideshow.

Complete your blog post on previous students’ work and evaluate the skill evident in one of the examples.

The Brief

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Copy and paste this onto your static home page titled Welcome to my Blog.

The Brief:

‘The front page, contents page and double-page spread of a new music magazine. This is an individual edition of a magazine and if I have been working in a group, it has used the same house style as my group members.  All of the images and text in the magazine are original and produced by me with a minimum of 4 of my own original images.’

 

Starting Your Media Blog – 2017

Standard

A big part of the Media Studies course is your blog. It’s the place where you record your learning in Media Studies and is worth 20% of your overall grade!

  • It is expected that you post to your blog when instructed by your teacher.
  • You should also blog about work you’ve done as part of your independent study.
  • You should be spending approx 2 hours each week maintaining and updating your blog.
  • We run a drop in during lunch every Wednesday lunchtime to help you with your blog.

Starting your blog.

Right click here and ‘Open in new tab’. http://blogs.grammar.sch.gg/

1) Click on ‘Get a Blog’

  • Your username should be your name all lower case, no spaces e.g. ‘edgregson’
  • You must use your school e.mail account, e.g. ’05gregsone01@web.grammar.sch.gg’
  • Get it to ‘Give you a Site’

2) Then you will be asked to give your site a name.

  • Your user name should be formal e.g. Ed Gregson (Media Blog)
  • Select ‘Search Engine Blocked’
  • Prove you’re not a robot.

3) You will then have to check your school e.mail (not your g.mail)

You should get an e.mail which looks like this.
  • You should follow the activation link.

The link should take you to a web page, which looks like this.

4) Login

You should now receive a second e.mail with your username and password, which you should use to log in to your blog, using the link in the email:
  • Login (using the username & password provided).
  • Change your password in the dashboard (record the password somewhere).
  • Update your profile so it suits.
  • Start blogging.

5) Join the Class Blog

  • Click on the ‘My Class’ button in the top left corner, just below the Edublogs logo.
  • Click search for a class and search ‘mediastudiesas’
  • Send a request to join
  • A link to your blog will appear in the margin of the Media Studies AS blog, which your teachers and the examiner will use to access your blog.

Choose a mobile friendly theme and one that scrolls down so that you don’t have to open and close posts all the time.

6) Setting up your blog home page and menu items.

Please use this document to format your blog.

Blogging Help

Before asking a teacher for help with any aspect of your blog that you are stuck on please use the Edublogs ‘Help and Support’ page. Its accessible through the Edublogs logo in the top left hand corner of the screen.