12 October 2005
Blog Log & Reflection-in-Progress
Blog Log & Reflection-in-Progress
Due: October 20th
Your Blog Log & Reflection-in-Progress will be comprised of two parts:
1) A log listing your required blog posts and comments on your classmates’ blog posts. By the time this assignment is due (October 20), you should have been blogging for this class for 7 weeks. That means that you should have completed at least 7 once-weekly posts and 14 twice-weekly substantive comments on your classmates’ posts. This log should take the form of a list of the seven weeks (Sept. 6 through Oct. 18) with entries providing the permalink URL to your post and to your comments. To get the permalink to a blog post, right-click on the time stamp at the bottom of the post and select “Copy Link Location.” Then paste the URL into your Word document. To get the permalink to a comment, click on the time stamp at the bottom of the post you have commented on. Then find your comment and right-click on the time stamp underneath your comment. This is the permalink to your comment. Paste it into your log, too.
Here’s a sample Log entry from “Tall H” of BurlingtoneZ:
Week of September 6th
- “It ain't VT, but it is CT”
[http://burlingtonez.blogspot.com/2005/09/it-aint-vt-but-it-is-ct.html]
Comments:
- [http://burlingtonez.blogspot.com/2005/09/yeayeayea-das-wuz-
up.html#c112611291004790517] - [http://burlingtonez.blogspot.com/2005/09/yeayeayea-das-wuz-
up.html#c112606310475512678]
If you have composed more than one post and/or two substantive comments in a given week, feel free to list them all. If you have not completed at least 7 posts and 14 substantive comments, you will need to do so before turning in your Blog Log and Reflection-in-Progress.
2) An analysis of your own blogging in particular and your blog in general. This is a mid-term evaluation of what’s happening on your blog, how it compares with what you expected or planned to happen on your blog, and, based on the results of that examination, what you plan to do for the rest of the semester.
For this analysis, you will want to revisit your Blog Intention to summarize your initial expectations and strategies for your group blog. This will provide you with a “horizon of expectations” against which to look at what is actually happening (or not happening) on your blog.
You should devote considerable time and energy to analyzing the particulars of what is going well on your blog and in your posts in particular.
You should also devote considerable time and energy to analyzing the particulars of what is going not-so-well on your blog and in your posts in particular.
As analyses, both of these should use passages from your blog (or from others’ blogs to provided contrast) to support the arguments you will be making about your blogging.
Finally, given the conclusions you will reach about your blog, what actions will you take on your blog? Will you be changing your blogging strategy? If so, how and why?
This analysis is not an exercise in finding ways to argue that your blog is excellent and right on track. If yours is, that’s nice. It doesn’t have to be. This analysis should be an honest evaluation of how well your blog is achieving the goals you set forth in your Blog Intention.
Your analysis should be at least 4 pages, double-spaced.
