Thursday, March 12, 2009

Hi. As some of you know, I had to go for some econs rep meeting yesterday. Some of the stuff they discussed/briefed us about concerns our class, so I thought I'd just tell you guys about it first.

OKAY. Here goes.

For TERM 2 WEEKS 1-5 we will be covering MARKET FAILURE AND GOVT INTERVENTION. Here's what we will need to do. I quote the paper:

Each CG will set up and manage an "Economics Blog". These blogs will be hosted in external server such as blogspot or wordpress. The postings (at least 3 per week per class) on the blog will be focused on Market Failure, specificall, it should coincide with each week's topic.

Students may post
a. responses to specific questions raised by the lecturers
b. write ups on a newspaper, magazine, online article which explains the relevance to Market Failure
c. any other useful web links or scanned articles which may be useful or interesting (related to the topic)
d. reklated comics, poems
e. daily observations related to the topic

The blogs and the related competition will run for the entire duration of the lecture series of Market Failure (Term 2, week 2 to week 6)

There will also be a competition for the best blog held throughput the duration of this activity. This will help to motivate the students to participate and also recognize their efforts.

Criteria:
a. participation (40%)
b. quality of posts (40%)
c. creativity/design (20%)

Phew. So long sia. Okay, I'm gonna have to assign roles to you guys.....sometime. Will do it in term 2, I guess. Okay, that's all for now. :)

Alicia (duh. who else??)

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