Students, you listen to my lessons learned each week but today it’s your turn to tell me your lessons learned so far this school year. Your assignment for today is to create a blog post using our social network reflecting back on your school year to this point. In your post make sure that you use at least THREE LESSONS LEARNED. In addition, I have posted 8 tips that I would like for you to use in your blog post:

1. Make your opinion known
People like blogs, they like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations. People want to know what people think, crazy as it sounds they want to know what you think. Tell them exactly what you think using the least amount of words possible.

2. Link like crazy.
Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post….watch the video:

3. Write Less
Give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinitely busy. Blast your knowledge into the reader at the speed of sound.

4. 250 is enough
A long post is easier to forget and harder to get into. A short post is the opposite.

5. Make Headlines snappy
Contain your whole argument in your headline. Check out National newspapers to see how they do it.

6. Make your posts easy to scan
Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading. Make sentences and headlines short and to the point.

7. Be consistent with your style
People like to know what to expect, once you have settled on a style for your audience stick to it.

8. Edit your post
Good writing is in the editing. Before you hit the submit button, re-read your post and cut out the stuff that you don’t need.

Mr. McClung