Evaluation Criteria

Based on the discussion on Oct. 27th, below will be used for evaluating blog project this semester.

About the Language
1. Use appropriate kanji and katakana. Use kanji that classmates know or provide hiragana reading
2. Show progress in/effort to use Japanese (practice of vocabulary and variety of grammar/sentence structures)
3. at least a paragraph (about five sentences or more)
4. minimal English
5. NOT have to be perfect Japanese

About the Content
1. Interesting entry.
2. Clarity and creativity
3. Make it fun- videos/pictures/links
4. Variety of subjects
5. Express your personality
6. Extra points for humor

About the Format
1. Comprehensible layout
2. Interesting, cool, colorful, neat and organized layout
3. Show care into maintenance
4. NOT be graded on appearance (some of us don’t know how to work with HTML formatting)

About the Frequency
1. post at least once every two weeks

Others
1. Leave comments on other people’s blogs
2. Comment back to others
3. Introduce yourself (something in the “about me” section)