Blogging Etiquette

Please abide by these guidelines when blogging on this spot.
1. Treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for your blog. While we encourage you to engage in debate and conversation with other bloggers, we also expect that you will conduct yourself in a way that would be acceptable in the classroom.
2. It is okay to be critical, but it is not okay to be mean-spirited.
3. Make sure your comment stays on the topic.
4. Write in complete sentences, and refer to the post to which you are responding.
5. You may support your answer with a quote from the book.
6. Write an original thought. Think outside the box.
7. Include connections: text-self (this book to your own life), text-text (this book to another book or an article) or text-world (what is going on in the larger world that connects to this book?)
8. Write a minimum of 125 words.
9. Do not write “shallow” comments like “You da man!” “I agree!” unless you plan to follow up with thoughtful comments.
10. Include your first name and last initial.

adapted from William Kist - Social Networking in the Classroom