Making a Blog and Group Roles

This 50-point assignment is as much as a unit final essay, so plan your work ethic accordingly.

All members of the group should equally contribute to the content of your group's blog. The teacher will be able to tell that people are equally contributing by the "posted by" that appears at the end of each blog post.

Your group should assign the following four roles so that one member of the group is an expert in each area:

Blog Administrator: This computer savvy student sets up the blog and makes sure it's graphically appealing and engaging. Perhaps the blog will include helpful links, a poll, and labels for posts to ease searching. The blog administrator for your group needs to set up a blog. It's easy in blogger. Just follow the instructions from Edina English teacher Jim Hatten by clicking here.

Textbook Reader: This strong reader signs out a Patterns of Religion textbook and reviews it for relevant information regarding history, beliefs, and practices. Since this book is a teacher-selected and school board approved book, information paraphrased from here does not have to be analyzed for credibility.

Copy Editor and Citation Cop: This strong writer proofreads all the group's blog entries for mechanical errors and to make sure all information is appropriately paraphrased or quoted directly. The citation cop also makes sure that all information and graphics are cited.

Internet Fact Checker/Evaluator: This strong evaluator reviews the websites being cited on your group's blog to determine credibility. Although authors will be determining if an Internet site is credible, the evaluator will double check the site's credibility by following the evaluation flow map for each site.