Welcome to the IB Economics blog!

Welcome to the Grade 11 IB Economics blog. The guidelines for the blog are listed below and can be accessed anytime through the archive as the course progresses. Students will be required to write a blog response once every two weeks, alternating between the class groups. This will increase the opportunity for students to make a substantive contribution, as fewer students will be involved in responding to each post.

I will post by the end of each Monday. When it is your week to write, you will have until the following Sunday night to respond to the post. If you reply by the end of the day on Wednesday, you will have a second opportunity to comment to improve your mark for that week. Replies after Wednesday will only have one chance. This is meant to encourage you to reply early, which will improve the opportunity for everyone to engage with the content. Late posts will not be accepted.


There are several ways you can achieve these marks:

1. You can respond to a specific question I have asked in the post
2. You can reply to the comment of another student, by supporting, building on, or criticizing their comment
3. You can post your own, substantive question related to the post. It cannot be a one-liner; there must be some discussion / explanation leading up to the question posed.
   
4. You can post information, video, links or other internet or non-internet related information to the post (in other words, add to the post) with some discussion / explanation of the relevance.
   

Your response will be marked on a scale of 0-3, according to the following criteria:

0 = you have not replied that week or your reply is inappropriate (unpublishable)
1 = you have replied, but your post looks like something Joe or Jane Schmeckelhead (man and woman on the street) could have written
2 = you have replied and you demonstrate a link to your knowledge and understanding of economics
3= you have replied and you demonstrate an insightful link to your knowledge and understanding of economics

The following boundaries will apply for marking purposes:
? - ? = 7
? - ? = 6
? - ? = 5
? - ? = 4
? - ? = 3
? - ? = 2
? - ? = 1
? - ? = 0

(These boundaries will be determined in a few weeks, once the posting has begun and we can determine how many posts there will be in a semester.)

In the first semester, the blog responses will count for 10% of your grade. If the process goes smoothly, we may increase this to 20% in the second semester and next academic year. This change will be discussed with students at the end of semester one.