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Your SURF Blog will allow you to develop several ideas in short, focused, source-based web texts. You will create five blog entries in the first weeks of the semester, selecting two to develop into longer, more complex web texts that will comprise your final portfolio for ENGL 107.
You will use the “Posts” feature in CI Keys to create a new blog entry every other week. Each post should be about 500 words in length, include a creative title that captures the overall theme/dominant impression of that particular post, and integrate (and properly cite) a relevant image. You are writing to your classmates, so strive for readable, absorbing, and thought-proving prose and effective integration of your relevant image.
In addition to posting yourself, will provide feedback to at least 4 of your classmates on their own posts using the Comments feature in CI Keys. (Make sure the Comments feature is enabled for this purpose). Comments will enable you to identify elements in the post that you find noteworthy, intriguing, or thought-provoking in some way. Each comment should be about 25 words in length.
Before you begin posting, select “Settings” and then “Discussion” in your dashboard. Check the box next to “
Your SURF Blog will be evaluated holistically, taking into consideration the quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of your posts as well as your peer comments.
Blog Entry Prompts:
Relevant Resources:
“Blogging in the Composition Classroom” (from Writing Commons)
“Creative Commons Image Search” (for open source images)
“Flickr Image Coder” (for citing/licensing Creative Commons images from Fickr)
