Blogging assignment

Everybody will keep a blog related to this course and sustainable living. There is a minimum of 10 blog entries- 4 accompanying exercises 1-4 and 6 related to your project. This covers the writing content of the seminar. The rules are below. Read them VERY carefully:

1. Content of your blog should be course-related only. There are 4 assigned topics and 6 open-ended entries abobut your project. Each posting should be self-explanatory and complete- that means assume you are writing to an educated audience that knows nothing about this course. In other words, entries are not to be rants or ramblings but clear expositions of well-organized thoughts and responses to course content or related topics. You are encouraged to bring in outside sources of information.
2. You must blog about your project during weeks 3-8. That's 6 blog entries, at a minimum about your project. Each entry should be well-edited and presentable before it is posted. Credit for entries is counted at the beginning of each week, which for our purposes will be Mondays. So make sure to entered by the end of every Sunday.
3. Entries should address your ideas, observations, discoveries and experiences that you want to share with others. When you offer opinions, make sure a rationale is clearly given and explicated and that you provide support for them as well.
4. Each entry should be between 300-500 words. That's about 3-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages of double-spaced, 12 point font in Word.
5. Each entry must strive for quality! That means you have to put some effort into making your blog interesting, creative, informed, and readable. Here are some better examples of blogs that are out there:

http://jeffdhungana.blogspot.com/
http://www.treehugger.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://crooksandliars.com/

7. Also, I won't be the only one reading these. Visit and read each others' blogs and leave comments, critiques and suggestions. This will count towards 10% of your participation grade.

8. Assessment of your blog is based on the quality of writing, originality and accuracy of content, its informativeness and whether you complete all blogging assignments. If you think I will: 1. enjoy reading your blog, 2. learn something from it, and 3. see that you are learning something too, well, then you're on the right track!

9. Now that you've read the rules, open an account, then send your classmates and me the address to your blog.