Group Blog Assignment

Each student assistant within Founders Reference Department will participate in a group blog covering pertinent issues surrounding the 2008 Presidential Elections.

You are to choose a topic/issue from the list herein and post, once a week, how that topic is addressed, discussed, debated by the current six presidential candidates via newspapers, campaign and general media websites.

As of today, the current candidates are: Clinton (D), Huckabee (R), McCain(R), McKinney(GP), Nader(I), Obama(D)

Pick an topic/issue:

1 Immigration -- Richardson / Ukaoma
2 Health Care -- Jackson
3 Economy -- Gamble
4 Education K-12 -- Golden
5 Education Higher Education -- Nelson
6 Environment -- Ajala
7 Technology --
8 Domestic Issues (Infrastucture, Employment) -- Young
9 International Issues (National Security) -- Newsome
10 Housing --

Assignment Guidelines
1. Use RSS to track online resources.

2. Posts should be, at minimum 2-4 sentences. Must have embedded links to cited resources.

3. Each post should have labels with (1) your initials, (2) the issue you are covering and (3) the last name of the presidential candidate discussed in the post.