The Assignment...

Welcome to the Parkmont School US Government *Official* Blog

You will begin a project where you will be responsible for 2 (count 'em "two") blog posts per week. It will be your job to go out in to the Blogosphere (which yes, includes Twitter) and find out the hottest news in government today. You will use a variety of other online blogs, twitter posts, and news sources, with the goal of publishing your own blog, to keep the world updated on our government AS YOU SEE IT.

The requirement for this course will be that you post two blogs per week, one by Friday, and one by Tuesday. (The due time on this post is 11pm on those nights [get to bed!]). You are not limited to 2 posts in a week, but that is the minimum requirement.

I will use this blog to update you periodically with new information, and updates to this assignment.

Steps to Getting Started:
1) we are using blogger.com for this project, so everyone will need to create a blog there. To do this, you will need to have a Gmail email address, so if you don't have one already, head on over to www.gmail.com and register a new account. I have no particular preference about your user name, just keep it appropriate.

2) Register here, at Blogger.com, and set up your own blog. You can choose any name you want, but it should probably be something that makes sense for this class, so maybe not something like "Kittens R cute" or "Extreme Action Blog," Maybe instead "Sam's Gov Blog" or "This week in the US."

3) Once you have your blog set up, and your ready to begin, you need to tell me your new blog's name so I can monitor your progress. To do that, just make a post here in the comments, with your: name and your new blog name.

Check back here regularly to see if there are any new assignments, requirements, or maybe some tips on what and what not to write.