A question as you get started: How long should weekly blog posts be? Is there an expected word count?

 Hi everyone! I know that many people need to know more about expectations about the length and nature

of your weekly blog posts. Here's an outline for starters -- let me know by email or in the comments if you have further questions:

The genre of blogging favours relatively brief posts with lots of ideas packed in, accompanied if possible by photos or illustrations, diagrams, video, audio, etc. So shorter, concise and full of ideas and connections is better than very long, wordy posts in the form of an essay.

Your reading response: this should be approximately 4-5 paragraphs long:
1) First paragraph: a concise summary of the article (because the others will likely not have read it)

2) Second and third (and fourth?) paragraphs: Two or three 'stops' (things that made you stop to think, feel, connect, respond, etc. in the article.)

3) Last short paragraph: A question to promote discussion in the responses from your fellow group members.

Hope this is helpful!