Winter 2011: A rainy day in Claremont

While I type this, a lab full of new bloggers are busily typing their very first blog posts. I wonder what we'll be able to read about soon?

I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to write a list of some great new blogs. In fact, I'm very optimistic ...

Here they are:

• Bernie's Blog
• Creativity Doesn't Come From a PhD
• Amanda Alessi
• Babyboomergran
• Stephen in Canning
• Woofable Read
• Mizzadventures of Mizz Cully
• Sami's Colourful World
• Technology Tips for Moorons
• Stories Around the Mediterannean
• U Must Be Jokin
• Bunbury South Network Principals

Welcome to the UWA Extension Blogging Course blog!

Welcome! My name's Amanda and if you're a participant in the UWA Extension blogging course, then I might be standing right in front of you now. If not, then do consider signing up for the next course. They're lots of fun and prove that you, too, can have your own fantastic blog without too much special knowledge or technical drama.

Useful links for the UWA Extension Blog Course

From the quiz:

• Becoming A Fiction Writer
• Sleep Talkin' Man
• My Life in the Country

Finding images:

• Flickr - search using Creative Commons

RSS:

• Google Reader

Blogging platforms:

• Blogger
• Wordpress

Blog statistics:

• Google Analytics
• Alexa

Making money from your blog:

• Google Adsense
• Amazon Associates
• Problogger.net (Darren Rowse)

Summer 2011: Useful and interesting blogs we looked at during our course



Blogs that I suggested you have a look at:

My Life in the Country

Big Kids Magazine

Not A Ballerina

Becoming A Fiction Writer

From Mum to Me

Because I Said So

Blogs suggested by (or already belonging to!) our participants:

Into the Wild Blue Yonder

The Cape Wine Bar
Jessie Anne - The House of Flowers

Le Couvent

The Food Pornographer

Blogs created by our participants: (How exciting!!):

Tales of a Perth Twenty-Something

Chefs International

Sawtell - quaint but sophisticated
Martin's World

A Few Acres
Wander Yonder
Sunsets and Chardonnays
Cottesloe Viewer
An Evolving Earth
To Be
Speaking of History
Where in the World is Eva?
Joy Manifest
The Weekly Coffee Headlines
Five Acre Voice

 Here's a picture of Perth, so you know where we are!



We're in Perth today!



One of our participants needs a photo of a chicken.
We found one in Flickr. Here it is:

(Thanks to StevenW for the photo)