A lot has happened since I last posted an update.  This post covers blog feedback, a team merger, the exam format, and individual website feedback. 

Blog updates --

• Individual blogs were given a quality grade and a recorded grade; the recorded grade was 10% higher to give mercy for the learning curve that people were dealing with at the time of handing them in. 
  
• A "Blog rhetoric hall of fame" was compiled with some excellent examples from student blogs.
  
• Individual blog feedback was made available to all members within a team, and shared among ECs, to enable learning from each other's feedback.

Team updates --

• About 1-2 weeks ago, team 2 and team 5 were amalgamated into Team 2.5 led by Kristen, with Michele as her EC assistant.  Carmen is helping the team stay on track.  They've done a lot just by creating a Google Document where everyone is writing their thoughts in different colors.
  
• ECs are busy helping their teams get their drafts ready for the March 29 draft deadline next week.  This means they are wrestling with issues about whose content goes on the site and how to organize it.

Exam --

• The course's exam was held last Wednesday in class.  Everyone was there, and everyone seemed to try hard.  Slightly more than half the class used the full 1hr 50 minute time given.
  
• 50% of the exam included matching & short answer on readings about Rhetoric, Service-learning, Editing, and Professional Writing. 
  
• 50% of the exam included 3 paragraphs that critiqued or praised rhetorical strategies found within a selection of 6 color screenshots of blogs/sites.
• Grades will come as soon as I'm done with individual websites.
  

Individual Websites --

• Currently I'm giving feedback on individual website assignments.  I am noticing that they are addressing audiences better than the blogs did. 
  
• The interview article content is generally better organized than the content that discussed or edited other people's documents, probably because people are more familiar with the genre of journalistic interview articles.