Journal
30% Online Journal (i.e., Blog)
There should be entries as follows:
1.) Textbook Sources. Create a blog post regarding the readings assigned for the week. Choose any portion of the readings and the chapter and write about the connections you find among other readings, your questions/concerns/personal reactions to them, etc. Do you agree with the readings? Disagree? Does the writer get her point across sufficiently? What else would you have liked to have learned in the reading? Did the author leave out some important information? You may post about the sections in the grey boxes in the text, you may post about the essays we read, or you may speak to a topic broached in the chapter itself. You should have a minimum of one of these entries for each chapter. They should be posted by Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m. Always consult your Course Calendar for due dates.
2.) Outside Sources. This section allows you to be creative in what you include in your blog and allows you to explore the connections between the material we are talking about and the rest of the world. If you see a newspaper article that relates to topics discussed in on the board or that you read about, you can link to it and include it here. You may include song lyrics, poems, advertisements, movies or television shows, etc. recently viewed/read/listened to. For example, if you hear a song which you felt tied in with something we read or talked about in class, you could include the lyrics of the song, the date you heard the song, and a few paragraphs about why it caught your attention and how it connects to our class. If you watched a television show that illustrated some of our material, you could write a short summary of the show, the date and channel it aired on, and a few paragraphs explaining the connection and your response.
Please have at least one entry in your blog per week. The word count/length of the blog should be somewhere between 200 and 250 words.
