Assignment #4 The Blog

Assignment #4  The Blog

For this assignment you will create and maintain a free blog on one of the commercially available blog sites such as Blogger, Wordpress or Tumblr.  The purpose of the blog will be to promote your interest(s) in photography and to use it as a form of advertising or social networking.

Start with signing up for a blog and customizing the layout to your liking.  All of the blog sites have custom templates that you can use, and will also let you tweak these to suit your artistic needs.  You can change the font and font size, the background and foreground colors, add images etc.

The first post should be an explanation of your interest in creating the blog.  What motivates you to share what you are sharing with the world? What is your goal with the blog?  Are you creating the blog to share your photography with others?  As a source of creativity?  Would you like to become better at combining writing and images together?  Interested in "how to's" and explaining (with images) certain photographic techniques?

To fulfill the requirements of this assignment, you will need to post at least once a week until our last class session.  The posts must be well thought out and filled with real, legitimate content.  You will have at least 3 or 4 paragraphs of writing in each post, along with at least 3 or 4 relevant images.  You may use photos that you have taken for this class, or other classes that you may be taking.

You are required to email me (jsmeding@lbcc.edu) the url of your blog, and we will be reviewing these periodically in class.

This assignment is worth 100 points.