COMM 337: Your blogs ...

I was thinking about how to handle class discussion questions on your blogs - our blogs - over the weekend. And I've got a compromise solution.

[Which means, of course, a solution that nobody's really satisfied with but nobody really, really hates either.]

What we can do is to move a lot of the spur-of-the-moment, in-class blogging to the Comments field of The Mackerel Wrapper. I still want you to discuss professional journalism-related questions on your blogs, because it'll be good experience and also good portfolio fodder. But it'll be better thought out this way, and I can do everything but the assignment of grades as comments to your blogs.

In order for me to comment on your work, however, you will need to change your settings to allow Users with Google Accounts. [In the Dashboard, click on the tabs for "Settings" and "Comments." The second question asks "Who Can Comment?" Click on "Users with Google Accounts."]

As I said in class last week, I really like the way some of you are focusing on things like photography, music, food, volleyball, etc., and I don't want to make you gunk it up with a lot of random, top-of-the-head answers to questions in class.

There will still be posts on your blogs that don't relate to the main theme, but I think you can cover that in your profile description: Something on the order of: This is a blog about music, or volleyball or whatever, but it also includes assignments for COMM 337 at BenU, etc. I've used the "About Me" field in the profile to do this, i.e. describe my blogs so readers will have some idea what's in there. You will no doubt find better models as you surf other blogs, but mine should be a pretty good starting place.