Wk4-Tues

**Pitfalls (5 min)**
Review the Pitfalls reading; create a "my stylesheet" page on your blog, then list several of your "blind spots"

Editing Mock Homepages (15 min)
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include component="page" wikiName="iupengl360" page="Student-Mock-Webpages" title="Student-Mock-Webpages"
 * Consult with classmates and professor; edit on the wiki.
 * Post as a final draft to your blog
 * Link it clearly from the assignment area of your wiki hompeage: index-of-homepages

Newsletter Project
This week we begin developing a real newsletter. Begin with a concept or group that needs a newsletter. Ideally this will be a real project not a "mock" one. Here are two newsletters for groups I'm involved with: Moraine Sailing Club and Evergreen Conservancy. Usually a newsletter is 4-12 pages; it speaks to members of an organization or a select group interested in a certain topic. Most notices are "timely" but some content may have to do with explaining what the organization is about, or inviting participation in something. What topics interest you? Do you participate in some group that could use a newsletter? When you have several ideas, compose a post and publish to your blog. A fall-back position would be to identify a sub-group at IUP and create a print newsletter for them using some of the web content at IUP.edu.

**Homework:**
Read //Yahoo: Copyright.// Write "Newsletter Brainstorming" and post to your blog. What group or constituency will you serve? How is the audience characterized? What basic categories of content should the newsletter contain? What writing is available for you to request permission to publish? What sections will you need to compose? Can you access the necessary information or do you need to interview, consult, or do further research?