Welcome to the blog for ENG 721

Welcome to the blog for ENG 721, an advanced reporting course in new and multimedia.

This will be a full immersion course. You’ve all had language classes where you were encouraged not to speak English. In this class we will try to live and learn online to the fullest extent possible.

On this blog you will find the class syllabus, assigned readings, suggested readings and resources. You will also create your own blogs for this class using Google’s Blogger software.

Click here to get started.

What is a blog?

Here is a good definition from Mark Briggs in his book Journalism 2.0:

"Blogs usually have several common characteristics:

"A frequently updated online journal, written in conversational style, with entries displayed on reverse chronological order (most recent stuff on top).

"Links to other news and information found on the Web comlemented with analysis from the blogger (or bloggers)

"A ‘comments’ link that allows readers to post their own thoughts on what the blogger is writing about. Not all blogs allow comments , but most do."

Please read Chapter 5 in Journalism 2.0 to learn more about blogs.

We will post each student's blog here as well as soon as they are created.