Friday 12 April 2013

Blog entries closed for coursework

Many thanks for all your submissions. Students are welcome to continue adding posts and comments  but anything entered after 11 April  will not count towards the coursework mark (unless you are given referred coursework at the Assessment Panel).

Between October 2012 and April 2013 the class of 25 students wrote

231 posts
430 comments
177,108 words - that's about the same as JJR Tolkein's "Fellowship of the Ring"!

There were 13993 page views of the blog
59% of views were from the UK (mostly us?)
20% were from Europe, 16% from USA, and 6% from RoW

Here's a link to a Wordle, showing the most commonly used words in the blog.(apart from common words like and, the etc.)  Not surprisingly, "bacteria" and "bacterial" scored top. Not such a strong showing for "viruses" this year!

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6584057/MicrobesRuletheWaves2012


1 comment:

  1. Hi Colin,

    I think it’s fair to say this coursework blog project has been the most enjoyable and useful assignment in my degree. It was hard work for us, but I certainly don’t envy you having to mark them all each term.

    Thank you!!
    Vicky :+)

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