Well, if you're reading this, you properly read instructions and successfully navigated to this page. (Let's all wait a minute for Kevin to figure it out and catch up to us...jk)
In the past, business courses such as this one, have used a "current events scrapbook" whereby students cut out articles, pasted them into a scrapbook and wrote a reflective summary/analysis on each article, how it connects to the course and their opinion on the matter. But how many teenagers have access to physical print newspapers these days, not to mention taking the time to actually read them? So we're going to change it up! No paper, no cutting, no glue...instead, paperless, environmentally-friendly and real-time blogging.
Your semester long task:
(i) maintain your own personal blog over the course of the semester that reflects upon current events happening in our world and connecting them to themes and concepts learned in our course, International Business.
(ii) Reading and responding to your peers' blogs and contributing to discussions arising from those posts.
How much is it worth? Your personal current events blog will be part of the final evaluation allotment, worth 5% of your final overall grade in the course. (Rubric to follow)
What do I need to do?
- Check out an online news outlet (some suggestions to follow)
- Pick a current event/article that interests you and is international in nature (perhaps something you heard about in the media beforehand, etc.)
- Write a blog based on this news. Break it down as follows:
(i) Brief summary of article/event
(ii) How it relates to International Business and key concepts/themes in the course
(iii) Your opinion and reflection on this news (could be as separate paragraph(s) or included throughout blog)
(iv) Link the article and link/post any photos, videos, etc.
An exemplar blog entry will be posted to give you an idea of the expectation. Nothing to sweat! This semester-long task is not meant to be stressful, but rather interesting, fun and an introduction to post-secondary learning that occurs in an online, collaborative environment.
FOLLOWERS:
Every student needs to follow all other students' blogs. This will enable you to see new posts and subsequently respond to the post and/or discussion. The easiest way is probably to follow Mr. Lamanna's blog and then have access to all other students' profiles. Then simply follow them.
NOTE: BE SURE TO BE AWARE OF THE PRIVACY SETTINGS...IF YOU ONLY WANT YOUR FOLLOWERS TO SEE YOUR BLOG, CLICK THE APPROPRIATE PRIVACY SETTING. IF YOU WANT ALL VIEWERS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR BLOG, THEN THAT IS UP TO YOU. EITHER WAY, BE WEARY OF RESPONSIBLE BLOGGING PRACTICES AND RESPONSIBLE INTERNET ACTIVITY AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.
More info on this blog ISP to come. I am sure we will all get comfortable with all the functionality and tools as we play around with them.
Testing out the ability to add a photo...
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| My apologies for the photo...only had a few on this comp. P.S. No, that's not GSP. |
Testing out the ability to add a video...
