Completing Your Blog
Post 7: Tech Topic Connection
For this final blog post, you must research at least two scholarly and/or credible sources in addition to your course text. You are
also encouraged to review the instructor feedback and the work you completed in the Week 3 Building a Blog: Develop
assignment.
To complete your Information Technology Blog, you will write a final blog post to further explore your chosen tech topic.
In your final blog post,
• Discuss how your selected tech topic connects to the fundamentals of information technology covered in this course.
• Explain how your chosen tech topic relates to the concepts of information technology and computer science, including the
history of computers and the means by which computers operate.
• Evaluate how your chosen tech topic relies on the major hardware components and functions of a modern computer system.
• Explain how your chosen tech topic uses programming languages and program execution methods.
• Analyze the role that application software plays with regard to your chosen tech topic.
• Describe how your chosen tech topic relates to the basic concepts of database and database management.
• Illustrate how the basic concepts of network architecture, management, and security influence your chosen tech topic.
Support your statements with evidence from your sources.
You are encouraged to reference the Blog Post 7 Sample Excerpt from a sample answer that shows how to connect the tech
topic of programming languages to fundamental IT concepts.
Post 7: Tech Topic Connection
• Must be at least 600 words in length, double-spaced, not including title and references.
• Must use at least two scholarly and/or credible sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA Style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center's APA Style
Elements resource.
Blog Reflection Paper:
Write a brief (i.e., one to two paragraphs) reflection paper in which you summarize your experience creating your blog. Copy and
paste the URL of your completed Information Technology Blog at the beginning of your paper.
In your paper,
• Explain the blogging best practices that you researched and applied to your blog.
• Describe any issues or problems that you encountered and how you solved them.
• Analyze the potential role of your blog as an educational tool within the courses for your program any beyond.
• Explain how you plan to maintain and improve your blog over the course of your educational journey.
