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Extra Credit: Back-Up, Check-Up, and Review

 

PART ONE: BACK-UPAlthough no student has ever lost control of their Google account in this class, it is good to be on the safe side and keep local copies of your work... just in case. So, I'd like to encourage you to back up your Google-hosted content, along with anything else you might need to back up locally. As a general rule, you should learn how to do local back-ups for any cloud service that you use either for school or just for fun. So, take a look at the instructions at the bottom of this page for backing up Blogger locally, along with other cloud services you might be using for this class.

 

PART TWO: CHECK-UP. It's also a good idea to check up on your weekly progress in D2L, just to make sure you did not forget any Declarations. If you did forget to do a Declaration, the sooner you can let me know, the better. Doing the Declaration is part of the assignment, but I can record the points for you manually if needed; just let me know.

 

PART THREE: REVIEW. There are daily announcements for class, including weekends, at the class blog: Daily Announcements. You probably don't get a chance to read the announcements every day, though, so for this assignment I'd like you to take a look at the announcements for the past seven days to see what you missed and also to see if there is anything fun/interesting in there that grabs your attention. You can use this link — current week's announcements — to see a whole week's worth of announcements on one big page. So, read through the past week's announcements and find one item you want to include in your Review blog post. If you want, take a look at anything you find in the blog sidebar also, and you might also scroll on down through the Twitter stream (as you scroll, it will prompt you to load more and more and more, so there is a lot there in the Twitter box even though it is small). 

 

BLOG POST: To finish this assignment, write up a blog post where you include your favorite item from the current announcements (graphic, video, whatever), along with a link to that particular day's announcements and/or a link to the source for that item. Include the phrase "Week ___ Review" (Week 1 Review, Week 2 Review, etc.) in the blog post title somewhere and also use "Review" and the week (Week 1, Week 2, etc.) as the blog post labels.

 

Event announcements: Are you involved in any kind of campus group with an activity coming up? Please let me know about anything I can include in the class announcements — there are always things going on, but I would definitely like to focus on events that people in class are involved in! So, let me know about that in your Review post and/or send me an email with information about your event.

 

When you are done posting, you are ready to do the Declaration:

 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

I have completed the backups/checkup and written a "Review" blog post with my favorite item from the current announcements.

IMAGE. I have included an image with Image Information.

TITLE: The words "Week ___" and "Review" appear in the post title (for example, "Week 1 Review").

LABELS: My post has "Week ___" and "Review" as the labels, separated by commas: Review, Week 1 (or Week 2 or Week 3, etc.).

 

Here are tips about how to do local back-ups for the services you might be using in this class: Blogger, Google Sites, and Pinterest.

 

Blogger Back-Up

 

Here is how to back up your Blogger blog:

 

1. Go to your blog, and click on Design in the upper right-hand corner to access your settings.

2. Click on Settings in the left-hand menu. 

3. Click on Other in the Settings menu.

4. Click on Export Blog. This does not remove your blog; it just exports a copy for downloading.

5. In the dialogue box that then appears, click on Download Blog. 

6. Click X to close the dialogue box.

 

The file that you save is also useful if you ever want to move your blog to a different service such as WordPress. The XML file standard for blog backup files is not platform specific; it works for any blogging software system.

 

Google Site Back-Up

 

You only need to do this for a STORYBOOK Google Site. You do not need to back up your practice site, so this only applies if you have a Storybook website up and running. Backing up a Google Site is not as easy as backing up a Blogger blog, but it is still not too hard. Here is how to back up your Google Site the first time:

 

1. Create an empty folder in which to save your files.

2. Go to your Google Site coverpage. From the File menu in your browser, choose Save, and then save the page in the folder you created (it will save as an html page plus a subfolder containing any images on the page).

3. Go to your Introduction page, and save that page in your folder.

4. Go to your story pages one by one, and save them in your folder.

 

Later on, you only need to save pages you have edited since the last back-up. You can find out what pages you have edited by checking your site history. Just add this to your site name:

YOURSITE/system/app/pages/recentChanges

 

For example, here is a Google Site history listing, showing which pages have been edited:

https://sites.google.com/site/hobbitusille/system/app/pages/recentChanges

 

Your history lists all the pages you added and/or edited, from most recent to oldest, so you can use that to see if you have done any work on your site since the last back-up, and then you can back up the pages as needed.

 

Pinterest Board(s) Back-Up 

 

You only need to do this is you are actively using Pinterest for the class. Backing up a Pinterest Board is easy. Just go to your Pinterest Board and scroll down to make sure that all your pins are visible. Then, use the File-SavePage option in your browser to save a local copy of the page. That will save all the text and links on the page, along with the images. You're done!

 

You probably won't ever need to recreate a Pinterest Board from this back-up, but the saved page files will give you everything you need to do that. 

 

 

 

A stitch in time saves nine.

(English proverb)

 

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