Welcome to blogging

Hello Class,

Start Blogging (enjoy this exercise - more talking than academic). 

Some of you may be blogging pros, while I know others are blogging novices.

Treat these blogs discussions - one initial post due Friday week materials are due and 2 peer responses by Sunday. Anytime blogging is due it must meet these requirements. 

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If you are here, clearly you already read and followed the instructions from Module 1 on blogging. The first assignment states:

Remember, the point of journaling is to convey your ideas about what you are learning, but since you are in an academic format, it should be substantiated by the information that you are exposed to in this course. It does not matter if you like or dislike something; what matters is why you feel the way you do and what lead you in the sources you reviewed to feel that way.

1. Write a 250 word minimum piece of writing that can be used in a blog post. Your writing must document and describe one of the web resources in Module 01 and tell us, the reader what you have learned from it. Do not assume that all of your readers are familiar with the resource. Here is a good link for composing a quality academic journal post: http://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/academic_journal.htm

So have fun, be creative, load pictures, link important websites. Although this is an academic exercise, I prefer that you explore your creative side, express yourself freely.

You will find that adding photos will draw you into a blog that you may not have first engaged. 

Enjoy.

Photos: 
1997 Oglala Sioux Billy Mills. The only American to win the Gold in the 10,000M - 1964 Olympics. 
April 29, 2019 - My partner Jon and I are both Zumba Instructors. 



Pipe Carrier White Wolf, my children, Jon and I at our June 2018 naming ceremony. Migizi Miigwan (Eagle Feather) William (Niikwid Migizi - Standing Eagle) James (Gekek - Red Tail Hawk). Jon (not pictured) will receive his name next visit we arrange. 


Sault Tribe of Chippewa Tribe chairman Dr. Aaron Payment and I talking before the Billy Mills 5K May 13, 2017.


  





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