{"id":1080,"date":"2005-06-10T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2005\/06\/10\/blog-unit-is-now-available\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T13:47:00","slug":"blog-unit-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/blog-unit-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog unit is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Unit on blogging is now finalised. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartgroups.com\/vault\/HNComputing\/SQA\/DDN8111.doc?\">Weblogs <\/a>[DOC] is an Intermediate 2 unit which covers the basics of finding, creating and tracking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blogs\">blogs<\/a>. It shows how to locate blogs, what blogs can be used for, how to create and use a blog, and how to track blogs using aggregation tools (such as RSS). It&#8217;s not entirely hands-on since students are exposed to the history of blogs, shown how to evaluate a blog, and introduced to the theory of aggregation. The unit also places blogs in the wider context of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_software\">social software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting and straight-forward unit that should appeal to students. The resource requirements are low; students simply require access to the Internet and can use a free blogging service such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/start\">Blogger<\/a>. The unit can be used as part of a National Certificate programme within colleges or free-standing within schools.<\/p>\n<p>Although the unit is finalised, is it not available to centres until 2 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Unit on blogging is now finalised. Weblogs [DOC] is an Intermediate 2 unit which covers the basics of finding, creating and tracking blogs. It shows how to locate blogs, what blogs can be used for, how to create and use a blog, and how to track blogs using aggregation tools (such as RSS). It&#8217;s not entirely hands-on since students are exposed to the history of blogs, shown how to evaluate a blog, and introduced to the theory of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}