Minutes from the Oct 17 meeting:

• Rozairo elevate me to admin for the blog
• Install Skype for Business
• Wechat
  • Kathy et al create an “SCSU” account – pls invite Plamen to that account
  • Plamen – install Wechat and use to asses and share with Kathy et al
• schedule meeting for MC 206/7 to demo the big bro software
• discuss the choice of social media
  • blog vs WeChat vs FB
  • audience vs ownership
• Rubrics and other stimuli for students to maintain blog
  • rubric
    https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html 
    https://timhorgan.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/blogging-rubric.pdf
    http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?sp=true&code=AA76X7
    this also can be helpful: http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-rubric-for-evaluating-student-blogs/27196
    maybe/to consider: http://cplong.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Blogging-Scoring-Rubric.pdf
• • monthly badge to be collected for the final competition
  • final peer review through Google Form and/or D2L Survey

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Plan for August 17

Introduce students to the blog idea. Short link to this plan: http://bit.ly/blog4ci

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/17/blogging-for-confucius-institute/

• Why blog
  • What is social media, when SM started
  • What is blog, when blogs started
  • Why blog
    • Blogging vs microblogging

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/12/31/social-media-and-the-devaluation/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/01/01/blog-future/

• Type of blogs: text based, video blogs etc.
• Difference between discussion boards, blogs and wikies
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/02/11/discussion-boards-blogs-and-wikis/

• How to blog
  • Basics
    https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/01/02/blog-writing-guidelines/
  • Students’ blog – how to
    https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/10/13/students-blogs/
  • Teachers blogs
    http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/09/the-state-of-blogging-in-the-classroom/
  • Plan, structure, goals

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handout on basic functions with your blog

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