Class Blog

As an educator, I am coming to the uneasy realization that the our relationship with information is shifting in profound and unprecedented ways.

Educators are no longer the keepers of knowledge. Google and Wikipedia are. Students no longer need to wait for the teacher to deliver the information; the information is already in their pocket. 

This is the reason for our class blog. I want the blog to be a place where we create content, share ideas, and collaborate with out classmates. My goal for the blog is for it to represent a summary of our class’s activities and a consensus of what we think is important. Individuals will not own individual blog posts. We collectively own the whole body of work. We are all contributors.

Each night, a team of bloggers will be assigned to work on the blog.  They will be responsible for summarizing our class’s activities since the last class. This summary can be entirely text, but feel free to get creative.  It will be the job of the rest of us to serve as editors and fact-checkers.  Non-bloggers won’t be graded, but still have a responsibility to check previous blog posts for errors or omissions. This is a very important job; we don’t want our blog contributing to the abundance of misinformation out there. Anyone should also feel free to spice up any previous post with pictures, links, video, or other online content.  Be creative. 

Grading

Your contributions to the class blog will constitute as a lab grade each quarter. 

 Grades will be out of 10 points and will be based on the following rubric:

Bloggers

9-10 Points	6-8 Points	1-5 Points	0 points
Your post is thorough, accurate, thoughtful, and complete. You clearly summarize the class activities and discuss relevant skills, concepts, terminology, and due dates.  You also effectively utilize multimedia.	Your post contains a basic summary of the class activities without multimedia. It is insufficiently deep and/or contains several errors.	Your post shows very little thought and/or is highly inaccurate.	You did nothing or posted something inappropriate.