Blog Project Overview

Hi, Students.

At this point you have been assigned to a group and you are starting to become familiar with the blog project objectives.

When it is your groups turn to facilitate a blog, make sure that you include:

1. The title of the blog and its URL
2. A brief description of the blog
3. How this blog is relevant to the course theme.
4. A few conversation starters

Now, step one is fairly simple, just make sure to put the title in quotation marks. In step 2 you should include a description on the nature of the blog (maybe something on the visual elements of the blog or perhaps what seems to be the intended audience, etc). Step 3 is where you should include a brief paragraph (3-5 sentences) on how this particular blog we are reading is connected to our class discussion on gender in the music industry. The site as a whole might not always be relevant, but a specific article in it could be, but you need to explain why. In any case, you should always be able to relate the blog you have selected back to the thematic concerns of the course.

It is also important to note that facilitators will not just simply be posting a blog for everybody else to see, but actually leading and keeping track of the online discussion and making sure that the conversation keeps moving. Essentially, this means that all group members are responsible for reading the featured blog in order to create proper discussion.

In addition to your group collaborating and posting a blog for the week, you will comment on featured blogs by all other groups (so you will also be a respondent).

After a blog is posted, you will need to answer the question "What's going on here?" and using one of the suggested prompts (see blog project handout), provide insight as to how this blog functions and what it is trying to achieve.


If you ever have questions concerning the class blog, including instructions on how to be a facilitator when your turn comes and/or responding to a blog, you can always refer back to the "Blog Project" handout on Carmen, e-mail me at meza.7@osu.edu, ask me at the beginning of class (I will try to have at least 5 minutes open at the start of each class meeting to take questions about anything), or see me during office hours.