Summary

• Three “blog” posts per student during the semester
• Post on Piazza
• Discuss on-line resources about topics relevant to the course
• Schedule below

How to Write a Post

Based on blog guidelines from Cornell networks course

The point of the course blog is to make connections between the course material and online resources discussing topics from the “real world” (current events; technology; history; political, economic, or social theories; academic findings; etc.).

Each post should include the following:

• A link to an on-line resource relevant to the course (e.g. a recent news article, an academic paper, an on-line discussion or essay, a company or organization doing novel work in this area, or any other kind of Web site with a useful reflection on the course material).
• Some commentary about the resource being linked to.
• A discussion of how the resource connects to some topic covered in the course.

There are many examples of appropriate posts on the Cornell networks course blog.

Feel free to look through these posts (and those from previous offerings of the Cornell course) to get ideas about (1) how to write a post, and (2) potential topics. I encourage you to look around for original topics, but it is also OK to reuse a topic from one of those blog posts. However, it is very important that you contribute your own perspective and cite all sources. In particular, if you choose to use a topic that appeared in a previous post, you must:

• Provide a new perspective on the topic
• Include a link in your post to any previous posts you referred to that are relevant to your topic
• Include a primary resource other than the previous blog post

When to Write a Post

Group assignments: see Piazza post