After putting in the URL, we explored the pages of our class blog and gave our opinions. We identified the parts of the blog we felt would be helpful to a visitor who does not know our class. We also gave our opinion about the "REMIND" text alert feature (see the sidebar to the right). We offered reasons why we felt this was a good feature, or why we felt it was not a good feature. Finally, we told the group what we felt we should consider adding to this blog. The main ideas were:
- Make a way to share opinions about what we do in class
- Add a list of names of the juniors and seniors in our class
- Explain the perks of subscribing to our blog.
Finally, we submitted our email in the box that said "Subscribe." There are several perks to doing this:
- you can get an email every time something is posted,
- you can tell friends or family to subscribe and they can see what your class is working on, and
- you don't have to return to the URL for this blog to see what's happening.
After we subscribed, we had to go to our email to confirm the subscription. The term is "opt in." It means to choose to join something.
Finally, we wrote this blog entry together as a group to see how subscriptions work.
