Purpose: Authoring blog entries will offer you another opportunity to present your ideas and writing for a larger audience than just the classroom teacher. Ideally, this will lead to more reflective, richer, and deeper thinking while increasing your writing awareness and skills.
Procedures: Each student will be assigned a day to be responsible for posting a 300-400 word blog entry. The topic of this should primarily be aligned to the current content of the course as you share your further thoughts, research, and connections. As you develop your ideas, you may choose to include support from other great writers, thinkers, and researchers, as you draw connections between the text we’re studying and the larger world.
By noon of your assigned day, email your post to miarko@rochester.k12.mn.us It will be posted as presented, unless the content is inappropriate to a public educational setting.
Evaluation: Each blog entry will be evaluated on
- Expanding upon ideas generated through current course content
- Using a range of sources to illustrate, explain, and present your thoughts
- Clear, effective writing
In addition to authoring a blog once a semester, you will also be asked to respond a minimum of five times to your peers’ blogs. These will be evaluated on- Responding to the direct focus of the entry- Connecting ideas presented with additional references/ideas- Thoughtful responses which further the discussion
