This is Week One of Practice In Context unit(semester 2 already!). I have been introduced to the unit guide where I will have to produce a research portfolio with blogs which will take up 75% and the rest for a 15 minutes research presentation. This research portfolio will be regarding social media and how it refers to the impact of digital technology and online learning environments. Themes suggested are:

  • social computing
  • folksonomies
  • photo-sharing
  • podcasting
  • new media art in Second Life
  • new learning collaborative environments

My mission after that is to create a blog account specially for the research purposes and that is how I got this account.
It is quite easy to create one and I will tell you how to do in few steps below if you are creating one in wordpress.com:

  1. Open www.wordpress.com.
  2. Click on “Start your WordPress blog” or “Sign Up” on your right hand side.
  3. Insert username, and e-mail address once the page in loaded. Choose “Gimme a blog!” button to enable you to use all the facility in like Dashboard as well as writing and reading.
  4. Click Next.
  5. This will take you to another page where informing that an e-mail has been sent to the e-mail address given for confirmation.
  6. Open your e-mail account and check an e-mail from WordPress.com
  7. Click on the hyperlink given to confirm and activate your blog details.

Now as you have your blog account, you can use Dashboard to write blogs, create layout and manage them.