What is a blog?
A blog (from the words 'web log') is an online journal where one person journals or posts information
The most recent post is always on the top and the blog is organized by month and year going back in time. This type of organization lends itself to projects or information that are most logical when the information is time-related or you want to follow a train of thought with comments and being made and responded to.
Your blog posts should have the same sense of focus as your papers do. A blog post could make a claim and then provide evidence for it or raise a provocative or interesting question. You can use the blog entry to rephrase ideas that made you think, feel, or learn about something.
You should be able to tell from the title the blog's topic and, in many cases, the governing claim.
Are there blogs that you read? If so, list those blogs in Evernote.
Blogging Rules
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Do not give out any information more personal than your first name
- Do not post recognizable pictures of you or your classmates.
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Never plagiarize. Instead you can expand on others' ideas and give credit where it is due.
- Only use language appropriate for school.
- Respect your fellow students and their writing.
- When writing comments, use constructive/productive/purposeful criticism
- Support ideas, comments, or critiques with evidence.
- Take blogging seriously, posting only comments and ideas that are meaningful and that contribute to the overall conversation.
- Take time when writing. Use formal language (not text lingo). Spell everything correctly.
- Never access another student's account or make any changes to their site.
- Personalize your blog and keep your writing authentic.
- Take responsibility for anything you add to your blog.
- Do not provoke other students in your blog posts or comments.
- Only call out failure of another if you can help them recognize another perspective, and do this with diplomacy. Look for root causes to characterize the failure instead of assigning blame.
- Only post photos which are school appropriate and are either not copyrighted or correctly cited.
- Post comments on posts that you have fully read, rather than just skimmed.
- Ask at least one question in a comment with the intention of continuing a conversation or deepening the thinking.
Infractions of these rules will lead to the following consequences:
Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, or whole blogging community) and editing or deletion of offending post/comment.
