Welcome to WGSS 2000 Fall 2018!

Welcome to WGSS 2000 Fall 2018!

Welcome to the WGSS 2000 class blog! To get inspired about what you might post on this blog and to see the format that blog posts often take, you may want to look at posts from the blogs in my Social Geographies class class for inspiration. Please feel free to "comment" to this post with examples of other blogs that other students might find inspiring.

Just a reminder, here are the requirements for blog posts for this class: 

In addition to participating in the classroom, we will have a class blog which will allow you to reflect on the readings and class discussions, connect them to your own life and experiences, and exchange ideas with classmates.  This assignment is therefore intended to help you think about the class material in new and different ways and interact with your classmates (and potentially the wider public) in an online setting.  New blog entries are worth 5% of your final grade and blog responses are worth 2.5% of your final grade.  At least one of your blog posts must be new blog entries, but otherwise you can accumulate the 15% total credit for this grade however you like.  You may do, for example:

• One new blog post (5%) and four blog responses (10%)
• Two new blog posts (10%) and two blog responses (5%)
• Three new blog posts (15%)

New blog entries should:

• be carefully thought out and directly related to that week’s readings and/or class material;
• explicitly refer to class readings;
• be at least two to three paragraphs in length (400-600 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 (at least 200 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 two blog posts per grading period will count toward your final grade (i.e., you can’t do all six posts in one week for credit).  The blog grading periods are noted on the course schedule.