Blogging (100 points or 10% of final grade)
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Assignment adapted from Dr. Bill Wolff's Writing, Research, and Technology course fall 2012.
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Assignment Overview
This semester you will be blogging and responding to blogs dedicated to the issues that we discuss and read about in class. The goal of the blog will be to present informed, insightful, curious, authoritative, and in-depth multi-modal posts on these issues.
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It is assumed that you are familiar with blogging because it is assumed that you have taken or are enrolled in Introduction to Writing Arts. If you are not familiar with blogging, please see “What is a Blog?” by Jill Walker-Rettberg, which is available in the dropbox folder.
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Assignment objective
The goal of these posts (and your responses) is to deepen and extend your understanding of the course topics through engaging in thoughtful discussions with your classmates outside of class. As such, consider these posts as important mini-essays for the course. Write them in a way that encourages open discussion.
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Assignment Specifics
Starting Week 3 and then over 10 weeks during the semester, two students will serve as Weekly Bloggers.
Each Weekly Blogger will compose TWO posts:
The posts should be posted during the week, and no later than Wednesday evening. Your posts should have alphabetic and visual texts and should be al least 250 words long EACH. They should include links to various related sources. They should be written with the tone of someone thoroughly engaged in the subject-matter and who is learning more about it. All posts should have at least 5 meaningful tags and be located within at least 1 of the following categories: digital writing, rhetoric, mashup, digital story telling (and/or any others that you think appropriate).
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Responding to blog postsDuring the weeks when students are not one of the Weekly Bloggers, you are required to:
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logging your blogs and responsesKeep a log in a Word or GoogleDocs document that contains for each post and reply:
Create a new page on your website called "blog log" and subordinate it to the "Cover Memo" page. Or you can upload the document onto the "Cover Memo" page using the "document" element from the Weebly build tools.
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evaluationBlog posts will be assessed in terms of
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Note:The bare minimum for blogging is at least 2 blogs and 18 responses (10 weeks of blogging wherein one week--the week during which you blogged--you were not required to write replies).
However, Only those students who blog at least 3 significant blogs for the semester (one significant blog post--at least 250 words--beyond the two required) can receive a grade higher than 90% for blogging. While blog posts in which you share drafts and the completion of writing projects in the course are required, they will not count toward this "third" blog unless you add something significant and reflective to what you are sharing. |