Prof. O'Rourke, DDA-606

Your blog serves as a journal of your thinking, research, study, exercises, and development throughout the semester. It is an extremely important part of this course. By the end of the semester, it will have become effectively a record of everything you did during the course.

In your blog you should record your critical responses and thoughts to all of the lectures, readings, web sites, field trips and student presentations.

Writing in your blog is not like a formal paper. It is more like a journal or sketchbook. Do not attempt to write extremely long entries, do not attempt to make the writing perfect. The important thing is to think hard and deeply and to record your thoughts. In addition to your text, include pictures, drawings, links, sketches -- anything at all that will help you think and help convey what you are thinking.

Your blog will be graded at three stages throughout the semester. See the syllabus for the exact dates. Grading will be based on originality of thought, depth of thought, and clarity of presentation. Your blog grades are cumulatively the most important set of grades you will receive for this course.

Blog pages must be accessible to all students in the class. Do not password-protect your blog. Your blog page for this course must be separate from other blogs you may have. It can be embedded within another blog, but it must have a separate link so that we can easily access your entries that are specific to this course.

All blog entries are due by Monday 5:00pm, the evening before our class. Late posts will result in reduced grades.