Class Journal

As part of the course, you will create and maintain a class journal. This journal is not a personal diary, but a place to keep track of, share, and respond to ideas as they develop. You should post to your class journal at east once each week.

Everyone in the class (including the instructor) will be reading the journals. Not only will the journals be graded, but they may help determine your grades on other projects (since they can provide evidence of what problems you've encountered and how you've solved or worked around them).

These journals may include (but are not limited to)

• ideas
• responses to readings (assigned and not)
• half-formed thoughts (see, for example, the Half-Bakery)
• aspiration for class projects
• frustrations with class projects
• new techniques
• revelations
• responses to questions / issues raised in class or in others' journals

Guidelines

• Create an online journal (a web page, a blog) linked from the intro page of your class web site.
• Post your weekly journal installment by class time on Monday
• Write informally
• Write at least three hundred words a week on
  • the content of the readings
  • ways in which you can apply the readings to past/present/future work
  • new concepts you are encountering and applying
  • additional reading you find helpful
  • techniques you have learned
  • directions you are exploring
  • follow-ups to class discussions
  • questions
  • answers
  • rants (if you must) in language suitable for public consumption from a university web site, please
  • no more than fifty words each week devoted to what you hate, can't do, can't understand, etc.
  • specific responses assigned from time to time