Notable Voyages

Explorer Microblog

Microblogs are social networking services that allow people to create mini-blog posts of up to 140 characters in length. Companies, celebrities, and politicians use microblogs to keep "followers" up to date on important events and news, but anyone can create a microblog account to communicate the events and news going on in their life. An example set of three microblog posts is:

Leaving Europe for North Pole on Fram.

Stuck in ice 250 miles from the North Pole.

Three years later, we are unstuck!

Now that you have learned about the many explorers that made notable voyages during the 18th and 19th centuries, you will need to create a short collection of five microblog posts that detail the journey of one of the explorers that you studied in this topic. As modeled in the example above, these posts do not have to be complete sentences, but they should be complete thoughts. Your microblog postings should appeal to a teen audience and use appropriate language.

Before you begin, access the Explorers Microblog Checklist to make sure that you include all of the items required for full credit. If resources outside of this course are used to complete this assignment, please submit a Works Cited document. If you need assistance, visit the Developmental Module for information on citing any resources that you used.

Once you have completed your postings, please submit your work to the dropbox.