'MULTIMEDIA'???

The term multimedia is used frequently in discussing how/what to blog to get into the high marks band. You're partially marked on the 'level of care in the presentation' and 'use of ICT' within your blogs. What does this mean? Multimedia = a combination of images, hyperlinks, podcasts, videos, vodcasts, links lists and other blog tools, use of Facebook/YouTube et al for audience feedback/research/marketing etc. Level of care means taking time to appropriately illustrate posts, find useful hyperlinks to include [generally make a phrase into a hyperlink; don't just type 'here is a link:'!], and checking your links work, images have been properly embedded (always: save and upload, never copy/paste or drag in), posts don't have massive gaps/white space (if you place a lot of images in a post it can take some tweaking!). I try to apply these principles. Make your blogs at least as good as this one!

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

QUICK NOTE ON BLOGS

The guides I produced some time ago listing the typical postings you should include looks to be a fairly accurate summary. There is material on all of this on the blog - if you've been following this and blogging as you go you shouldn't have any problems there!!!

I'll post the actual comments if I get time, but a few things that come through from the examiners' report on the first year of AS coursework under the new syllabus:
  • embed documents/videos rather than including links to them; makes it much easier for the examiners to access them (in Scribd you simply upload your doc, click on the link when done, 'share and embed' and copy/paste the embed code into your blogger post)
  • the evaluation MUST continue the policy of making your blog multimedia, using hyperlinks, images, embedded docs, podcasts etc - you can cover some of the Evaluation through a podcast, though a 'director's commentary' would really be the ideal (quite lo-fi, but you can consider trying filming a TV/computer screen while you talk over the content, pausing at stages as need be)
  • cover the Evaluation in 4 separate posts
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