Blogging Rules

First Readers: As a first reader, you are responsible for posting initial questions and insights about the material. Your post should be an approximately 200-300 word response to that day’s reading.  There are a number of ways to approach these open-ended posts: consider the reading in relation to its theoretical context; write about an aspect of the reading that you don’t understand, or something that jars you; formulate an insightful question or two about the reading and then attempt to answer your own questions.  Initial responses must be made 24 hours BEFORE the class in which the reading is assigned.

Respondents: As a respondent, you need to build upon, disagree with, or re-think the first readers’ posts. All responses must be posted within the 24 hours after the in-class discussion.

Searchers:  As a searcher, you will find and share at least one relevant outside resource.  This can be a link to a website, an interview, a short YouTube clip, etc. In addition to linking to the resource, you must provide a short evaluation of the resource, highlighting what makes it worthwhile, unusual, or, if appropriate, problematic.  (Must be posted within the 24 hours after the in-class discussion).

Each student will be a first reader once (I will assign your day), a respondent and searcher at least two times (feel free to do these roles more often).  The days you act as a respondent and/or searcher will be up to you.

I also want to see blog posts about guest speakers and field trips These blog posts can be more informal (i.e. journaling about experiences, reflecting on discussions, posting pictures and videos).

**Please make sure to sign your name to all blog posts.  Before submitting a post, first copy and paste it into an email/word document to be safe. Finally, if you can’t get your post to upload for whatever reason, simply send it to me via email. **