WELCOME TO THE BLOG!

Hi. I'm Dr. David Edwards. Welcome to the ETM 523/494 Soils and Groundwater Contamination blog site. The URL or address for this blog site is ETM523.blogspot.com. You are currently looking at the first posting (at the bottom of this blog site page) associated with the first team project assignment of this course. Your team will be creating a blog posting here for this assignment, too. I will tell you how to do it in the next post. By way of reminder, your assignment is to (1) read the assigned Chapter 2 from Pichtel on chemistry of common chemical elements, (2) have your team choose one chemical to blog about, and (3) create a team blog on this site on your chosen chemical. The next blog entry will tell you how to do this. Be sure to use materials from multiple sources and PUT EVERYTHING IN YOUR OWN WORDS but, even so, document your sources, that is, provide citations and references.

A blog consists of text and pictures that perhaps anyone can access on the Internet. Typically, blogs contain random, periodic commentary from individuals. But, why limit it to that? In this case, your team will be doing a blog as a class exercise, discussing one chemical element of environmental interest . Each of your teams will submit a single blog, but it is recommended that, before submitting it, the team chats on the online Discussion Forum that exists just for your team, and each person on the team contribute a photo, a paragraph, or some other form of content to the blog. You can include your own photos or graphics, or photos or graphics from the Internet in your assignment. Be sure to identify your photo or other graphic sources. There is no page limit on the blog.

Later, we may add additional information to this blog on another topic. Each of you will be responsible for each quiz for all information posted here.