Best of the Blog Awards

As you are working on your next few blog posts....

And as you are reading the words of your classmates....

Keep in mind that at the end of the semester, you will be nominating your classmates for the Best of the Blog Awards! Here is your opportunity to be recognize, and be recognized, for your hard work and academic analysis this semester.

The categories for the awards are:

• Best Writing: For this award, you will choose the blog that you thought showed the best writing ability. It could be because they were able to find that balance between keeping you academic, while they were teaching you. Or it could be because they brought the most unique voice. Be on the lookout for blogs that display great writing.
  
• Best Use of Multimedia: For this award, you will choose the blog that used images and video, along with text, in the best ways. More than just throwing in fun images, they integrated multimedia into their posts to actually enrich the experience of reading their post, with humor, or for historic examples, or as a unique way to integrate other perspectives. As you are reading the blogs, take note of the ones that use multimedia well.
  
• Best Use of Course Concepts: This award will recognize the blogger that gets it. This blogger weaves the course concepts into their posts so well, it is apparent they not only understand, but can take what we are learning to the next level. They explain things in a way you can understand, and also perhaps push you a little in your understanding.
  
• Best Responder: Despite the fact that you were all forced to give both positive and negative feedback, this classmate did so with style. Their feedback was helpful, insightful, respectful, and helped further your understanding of the course concepts and materials. Whether they used humor, or just brought in a perspective you had not thought about, this award goes to the person who did the best job providing commentary on other blogs.
  
• Best Overall Blogger: However you define "best" when it comes to our blogs, this is the award that will recognize the top blogger. It could be the person who made you laugh the most, made you think the most, pushed you the most, or just most consistently kept you engaged. As you read through all of the blogs, think about the posts that have lingered with you, and kept you thinking long after you've moved on to another post.
  
• Best _________: This is a write-in category, where you get to make up the award. Feel free to be funny (but try to be respectful!). It could be anything from "best ideas" to "best research" to "best sense of humor" to "best grammar"...the possibilities are endless. I will choose a few of the best write-in awards, and those peers will be recognized with the other award winners.

Note: Because of the timing of the due date for the final Blog Post (April 29th), you will only be able to use the first FOUR blog posts to work with. Make your next Blog Post (and round of comments) count!

For your 5th and final homework assignment (worth 5 points), you will be nominating your peers for the Best of the Blog Awards. You will do so using a survey on Angel. It will come available Tuesday, April 17th at 9:00pm and will close Tuesday, April 24th at 9:00pm--you will have one week to make your nominations. The survey will be in a folder under "lessons."