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JOURNAL WRITING

As you begin to plan your journal for this course, keep in mind that your journal must be submitted as a Word document that is attached to the course web board..

You may make notes, take photo's, cite articles, etc., but all of this material that you intend to use must be included in the Word document and the journal must be attached to the web board before Friday noon on the last week of classes.

Your journal is for reflection of the discussions, activities, field trips and readings experienced in the University Colloquium. You have much freedom as to what you make part of your journal. The journal should be creative and additions should be diverse in style.  The successful journalist varies style and media, using whatever they feel best captures the sense of the message or idea being chronicled in the journal. 

Below are some suggestions for your journal:

• primarily focus upon positive reflections
• balance the (electronic) images with writing and vice versa
• be creative
• take notes on 3x5 cards and transfer them to your journal
• use a variety of writing styles, colors and formats
• reflect on each field trip
• reflect on the Florida book you are reading
• include quotes from your readings

Distant Students:

• Review the scoring rubric for grading the journal
• Again, your journals will need to be attached to the course web board as a Word Document. The minimum (and I don't mean maximum expected) number of entries for this course is 15. Please make entries into your journal regularly and make sure they make their way into the Word version of your journal or journal notes, files, etc. If you want to reflect upon electronically generated news (say through ewspapers on the web or other sites) you may want to save these articles as html files (using the save as function in internet explorer and Netscape) and then use the "insert file" function in Word to place them within your electronic journal.