October 1

What Do You Think About the Ebola Outbreak?

We have been reading about the ebola crisis that has recently ravaged countries in Western Africa. Today your 14.10.02 ebola virusblog assignment is to create a post that links to the dogo news story right within your post. Then, you need to share your opinion on the ebola crisis?

Some responses may include:

  • What is the ebola crisis?
  • What facts have you learned about ebola?
  • Are you concerned about this crisis?
  • What would it be like to be a person in Western Africa during this crisis?
  • What would you do if it affected your community?
  • What do you think you can do to protect yourself? What do you think people in Western Africa should do?

To learn some more about the ebola virus you might read the following articles and watch the video linked below:

But Mr.E, I don’t know how to get Dogo Media into my post!

  • No worries: just follow the directions below
  • go to your dashboard
  • click on plugins (in the menu on the left side of the screen)
  • find the “Dogo News” plugin and click the “activate” link underneath it
  • Now start a new post.  You will notice that the “add DOGO media” button is now at the top left corner of your post window.  Click on this button to easily insert DOGO media into your blog post (just like you see below)

DON’T FORGET: you need to add a category for this blog post.

  • The category for this blog post is “quick write”