IB Economics Blog Post Assignment

Directions: Enter your name next to one date in the red months and one date in the blue months. Only one student may enter per date. The dates you select represent the deadlines for your ZIS Economists blog posts.

To write and publish a post, follow the link to the login page for the class blog: "ZIS Economists" Look for the link that says "Register" on the left side of the blog.
  • Register using your full name in the following manner: "Firstname.lastname" for example: Jason.Welker
  • Enter your email address and click "Register". Check your email for your password, follow the link to the sign in page and sign into the Blog's dashboard.
  • To change your password, immediately go to the "Profile" link and enter your new password twice.
  • To write your post, click the "Write" tab at the top of the page.
  • You can save drafts and come back to them through the "Manage" tab at any time.
  • If you wish, you may write your posts in MS Word and paste them into a blog post using the "Paste from Word" button in the "Write" screen.
All blog posts should hyperlink to an article relating to something we've studied from the IB syllabus. Posts should be between 400-600 words and follow the Criteria in the Rubric at the bottom of this page.

December:
1
 2
 3
 4 Max Huijen
 5 Vladimir Taratynkin
8 Venla aho
 9 Sabbie Walsh 10 Nicholas Burnham 11 Bastien Vogt
 12 Marc Lemann
15 Benji Rosen
 16 Daniel Edmonds
 17 Moritz(Momo) R.
 18 Jabbo Gehring











January:








12 Simon Strong
 13 Laura Perez
 14 Christian Evertz 15 Ultan Whelan 16 Fabienne Bergamin
19 Alex Svensson
 20 Jonathan Ranstrand 21 Kai Dieter
 22 Andrea Eggli 23 Michael Hale
26 Alex Hewat
 27 Theresa Mehl
 28 Gavin Steinhubl
 29 Dominic McNamee
 30 Rohan Bhanot

February:
2Emil Mawad
 3 Rohan Rajiv
 4Alex Han 5 Rocio Perez 6 Amit Zaidenberg
9 Rusty Knaub
 10 Maren Rackebrandt 11Finlay Small
 12 Juhani Meurman
 13 Christian Clausen
16 Virginia Hasenmeyer 17 Helen Poxon 18 Max Spielbichler

 19 Thibault Dk
 20 Karol R.
23 Laura Nanette Gambineri 24 Gabriel Martin
 25 Guillaume Dubois
 26Luisa v. W-O.
 27 Deniz Lorenzini




March:
2 Laila Brennikmeijer
 3 Helene Gleitz 4Aleya T.W.
 5 Stefan Bloch 6 Younes Huber
9 Dimitri Da Ponte
 10 Venla Aho
 11 12 13
16
17 Jabbo Gehring
 18 Jonathan Ranstrand 19.Theresa Mehl 20 Marc Lemann
23 24 Alex Svensson
 25 Moritz (Momo) R.
 26 Juhani Meurman
 27 Ultan Whelan
30Alex Han 31 Alex Hewat



April:
1 Christian Clausen
 2 Dominic McNamee
 3
6 7 8 Sabbie Walsh 9 Vladimir T
 10 Max Huijen
13Benji Rosen
 14 15.Theresa Mehl 16Emil Mawad
 17 Rohan Rajiv
20 Aleya lol
 21 Karol R.
 22 Laura Perez
 23 Laila Brenninkmeijer
 24 Rohan Bhanot
27 Kai Dieter
 28 Luisa v. W-O.
 29 Guillaume Dubois
 30 Deniz Lorenzini

May:


1 Dimitri Da Ponte
4 Christian Evertz 5 Maren Rackebrandt 6 Finlay Small
 7 Simon Strong
 8 Amit Zaidenberg
11 Fabienne Bergamin
 12 Andrea Eggli
 13Gavin Steinhubl 14 Rusty Knaub
 15 Rocio Perez
18 Virginia Hasenmeyer 19 Helen Poxon 20 Gabriel Martin
 21 Thibault dk
 22 Michael Hale
25 Max Spielbichler
 26 Nicholas Burnham
 27 Laura Nanette Gambineri 28Helene Gleitz 29

June:
1 2 Stefan Bloch 3 4 5 Younes Huber



















ZIS Economists Blog post rubric:
Criteria Low marks High marks
Length, connection
to syllabus
(2 marks) 		Post EITHER does not relate to the current unit OR is not between 400-600 words
0-1 		Post relates to the current unit AND meets the word limit of between 400-600 words
2
Organization and
presentation
(4 marks) 		Post is poorly organized and presented. Quotes from article are missing or used only minimally
0-2 		Post is well organized and presented. Author makes effective use of quotes from the article
3-4

Economics Terminology
(5 marks) 		The post demonstrates minimal use of appropriate economic terminology and there are only limited attempts to define terms
0-3 		The post demonstrates appropriate use of economic terminology. Terms requiring definitions are correctly defined.
4-5

Application and Analysis of Economic concepts and theories
(5 marks) 		The application or analysis of relevant concepts and theories has been attempted, but the linkages to the article are inappropriate or superficial
0-3
Relevant concepts and theories have been identified and suitably applied in the blog post.
4-5

Evaluation
(4 marks) 		The author attempts to evaluate the economic theories and concepts applied, but the evaluation is limited
0-2 		The author demonstrates evaluation of the economic theories and concepts applied with
3-4

Total score for blog post: _____/20


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