Thursday, August 28, 2014

Welcome to the class blog!

Welcome to the class blog!  Please feel free to use this blog as a tool to communicate with your classmates outside of class, bring interesting material into our discussion, and express your (social geography) ideas.  Just as a reminder, these are the details of this assignment:



You will be expected to participate in the class blog a minimum of five times throughout the semester.  At least one of your blog posts must be a new blog entry, and up to four may be comments/responses to another blog post on the site.  New blog entries should:

-          be carefully thought out and directly related to that week’s readings and/or class material;

-          be at least one to two paragraphs in length (200-400 words); 

-          contain links to and/or discussion of outside sources which relate to the week’s readings (including other webpages, images, youtube videos, etc).  These sources should help facilitate a discussion of the course topic;

-          be free of spelling or grammatical errors.

Blog responses should:

-          be at least one to two paragraphs in length (200-400 words)

-          indicate that you are familiar with class readings (including other students’ blog posts)

-          be free of spelling or grammatical errors.



You may contribute to the blog as many times as you want, but only one blog post per week will count toward your final grade (i.e., you can’t do all five posts in one week).  

Feel free to read through the previous posts which have been left up on the blog from the last time I taught this class.  These posts are all excellent and I thought they might serve to inspire you!