History 120 Web Journal

For this class, you will need to keep a web journal that includes your responses to each week's online excercises. You will need to learn how to make a smple web site and how to add material to it. Each week, there will be an onlne exercise, and your responses to that exercise must be posted on your web journal.

The journal is not a formal paper, but it will be graded twice--once in the middle of the semester, and once at the end of the semester as a paper would be. All the things that count in a paper—grammer, spelling, thematic coherence, clarity, organization, evidence and argument—will count in grading the journal.

There is a brief guide to making an effective history web page here, and the University provides classes in how to make web sites. But the instructors for this class cannot teach how to use software—you will have to learn that on your own. Your website journal does not have to be fancy or elaborate. In fact, simpler is probably better.

Journal entries should be roughly 500 words, or the equivalent of 2 double spaced pages. They should, like a paper, make specific references to the material in that week's online exercise, including quotations. They can include graphics and audio or video clips.