Posting Blogs and Blog Responses to "My Purdue Space"

By now you should be enjoying yourselves as you write and read about popular culture, cyberculture, and virtual communities. You do need to post links to your entries on your "My Purdue Space." If you need a refresher on how to make the links, you can find them here:

To Create a Link to Your Blog Post

1. Open your My Purdue Space in Dreamweaver. (Be sure to go to "Site" then "New Site" to avoid errors.)
2. Go to your blog site in Internet Explorer or Firefox.
3. Click on the blog entry you want to link to. (That takes you to what is called a "Permalink," which is the URL of that specific blog post.)
4. Copy the URL (click once in the address bar to highlight the address, then hit control+C)
5. Go back to Dreamweaver and highlight the name of the blog (i.e. Blog 1).
6. At the bottom of the screen on the right, you see the box for "Link." Paste the URL in that text box. (Hit control+V to paste.)

To Create a Link to Your Response to Someone Else's Blog

1. Go to the blog where you posted a response
2. Click on the specific blog entry to which you posted your response (see #3 above). That takes you to a page with the blog and all the comments on it.
   
3. Find your response and click on the TIME link underneath your response. Your blog response will move up to the top of the page.
   
4. Copy the URL in the address box at the top of the browser.
5. Go back to Dreamweaver and highlight the number of the response in your table. If it is the first response to the first blog, then highlight the number 1 in the Blog 1 column.
6. Paste the address in the link box at the bottom of the page.

About Popular Culture

We begin our exploration of life with technology by taking a closer look at popular culture. Before we can consider how popular culture influenced our lives, we have to understand what popular culture is. You were asked to read an article about pop culture, but here are some additional definitions that might help:

Pop Culture

Popular Culture (Click on the "Introduction" button)

With your group, come up with a definition of popular culture. You may use ideas from any of the reading (as long as you note where the ideas came from), but your definition should be your group's definition.

Share your definition in a blog entry on one group member's blog site.
Send an email to me telling me whose blog has the definition.