Overview of Blogging Project

Students teams create and publish a blog about one of the following eight big ideas related to the US Health Care System: workforce, technology, financing, outpatient care, inpatient care, managed care/integrated systems, long-term care, or health services for special populations.

Each team member will individually author a post related to one of the following subtopics: an brief overview of the topic including relevant history, the political (red, blue, or purple) stance of the team including statements describing beliefs and values related to health care, and several proposals for health care reform related to the team's topic. By the end of the academic term, each team member will author one post. Your team is expected to solicit individual posts from four guest authors about your team's topic: a patient, an interested student studying health at another university, a professional working in health care today, and a fourth guest author in any of the these three categories. All posts are limited to 750 words.

Students will receive points for their individually-authored posts and group performance points for overall appearance, organization, guest author contributions, contentious presentations during class, volume and quality of class comments, and success of each group's proposals during student referendums. Details will be provided by your instructor.

Students are required to publish the blog so that it is accessible to all class members, guest authors, and the instructor. Teams may publish their blog to the wider web if they choose to do so.

The other sample posts to this blog describe the nature of the required posts on an overview of the topic, reform proposals, and writings by guest authors.