This will be our class blog for the semester. You should have already
received an invitation for how to join this blog as an author. You can
find instructions on TRACS for setting up your account as well as instructions for how to post a blog and how to comment.
On
days when a reading has been assigned, you are expected to come to class
prepared to engage in a conversation with the text and your peers. To help you
prepare for these conversations, I will post reading questions to TRACS under
the assignments tab. You will be expected to respond to these questions with
either a blog entry or a blog comment.
Your assigned peer group’s schedule will
dictate whether you are responsible for a full blog entry or only a blog
comment. The peer group that has been assigned to lead discussion for the day
will responsible for posting that week’s blog entries, while all other peer
groups are responsible for responding with blog comments. Though these grades
are largely for completion, additional points may be gained by more thorough
and thoughtful responses, and points may be deducted for incomplete or sloppy
work or for work that shows little to no engagement with the text.
Blog
Entries must be a minimum of 300 words. They must be posted by 10:00 pm the night before class. Blog comments must be a minimum of 200 words, and they must be
posted by class time the day the reading is due. Blog entries and comments will
make up a significant portion of the Homework grade. In order to receive full
credit for these assignments, blog entries and comments must be posted to the
class blog by their deadline.
