Welcome to the CS400Y 

Work Cultures of Tech Ecologies Blog!



Welcome to the CS400Y Tech Cultures of the Waterloo Region Blog!  

1) Our class will maintain a collaborative course blog throughout the semester. We are using the blog form as a medium for:

• Sharing resources, ideas, links and feedback with your classmates
• Maintaining engagement with the themes and concerns of the course
• Using social media platform and practice to write for a closed and supportive audience

2) You are required to post at least five original substantive entry and at least ten substantive comments in response to classmates’ posts over the course of the term.


3) You must post at least two blog entries and four comments in response to the entries and comments of other class members by the beginning of Reading Week, February 19, 2018.


4) Your contributions to the blog will be assessed at the end of semester and given a single overall mark — you will be assessed on evidence of engagement with ideas, and on clarity and effectiveness of communication. The class social media blog is worth 20 % of your overall grade for the course.

Feel free to begin posting away immediately.

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