Hi student!
To become a member of this blog:
- Sign up for a WordPress account
- If you already have an account, make sure that you use the email you indicated in your student profile
- Wait for email invitation
- This is automatically sent to you after our first meeting
- If you haven’t received one yet by the next day, inform me right ahead
- You might have to check your spam/archive folders
- Accept the invitation
- Log in to your WordPress account
- Update your WordPress profile
- You should use your real-life nickname + last name
- You can upload a photo too so I can easily recognize you
To start writing in this blog:
- Check the topics list for recent journal questions
- Go to the main page, and select
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- You can now write your thoughts and answer the questions for that topic
- Before you publish your post, make sure you use the correct tag
- You can add more tags, as long as you use the tag for the topic.
- This is important because your post will not be graded unless it has the right tag.
- If you’re having trouble with any of the steps, ask me immediately so we can sort it out.
- If you feel more artistic, you can log in here and create a more formatted blog post (with bold, italic and stuff).
- But if you know html, you can use html tags. They work!
Writing guidelines:
- There’s no required length for your posts, so you can write as short/long as you want
- You can use any style — paragraph, bullet, poem, etc. — that matches how you want to convey your thoughts
- You can write in any (mixture of) languages you’re comfortable with, as long as they can be understood by everyone else
- You can also add pictures, link videos, and other multimedia elements to your post; just search for Wordpress guidelines regarding this
- Also, there’s an upload limit to this blog, so avoid uploading heavy files; I might have to delete it afterwards
- Lastly, be honest when writing. If there are ideas that you got from somewhere else, make sure that you give them the proper citations
Grading:
- I will decide whether a blog post/comment is acceptable
- If there’s something incorrect or inappropriate in your post/comment, I’ll discuss it with you so that you can make the necessary changes
- I will like your post/comment to indicate that it is accepted
- You can edit your posts/comments as many times as you want until you get the credit
— Paul, Instructor