Instructions to Students

by Professor Andrea White

Your short description can go here. To make it bold but smaller like this one, select it, then select "Minor heading" from the drop-down menu at the top. My name above is a "Subheading."

You will turn one of your assignments into a blog post that will be shared with the class and possibly be made public. In the past, students in this class have expressed an interest in sharing their self-directed learning projects with others. This assignment provides a mechanism to do so, should you want to share your project. However, any assignment that you complete for this class can be turned into a blog post. The class blog should be a showcase of the best work of the class.

Posts will

• have a descriptive title & author at the top 
• Put a short description & why you chose this assignment to share (2-3 sentences) at the top. Although this is not required, I think it would help contextualize your pieces. 
• be at least 750 words. Maximum should be ~1,500, but you may go over 
• include at least 4 hyperlinks to relevant pages or articles 
• have at least 2 illustrative pictures or figures, with the source indicated 
• have appropriate labels (aka tags). To add a label while you are in editing mode, look to the upper right under Post settings. Existing labels can be selected, or you can create new ones. You should have at least 4 labels, as follows: 
1. 1 assignment label: Teaching Philosophy, Motivation Project, Self-Directed Learning Project. Add other labels if needed (e.g., if you use a reading reaction, then make a new label to identify it). 
2. at least 1 audience label, e.g., teachers, students, parents. You can add new labels to refine these further. 
3. 2-3 course topic labels. These should be the primary topic of your paper, a major theorist/theory that you use, educational psychology concepts that you give a lot of attention to... 
• be in Helvetica or Trebuchet font, normal font size 
• while you are editing your blog post, select COMPOSE (upper left), then 
• SELECT ALL, then 
• Select Helvetica or Trebuchet from the pull-down menu under font (the fancy F at the top) 
• Select Normal from the pull-down menu under text size (the double-T next to the fancy F) 
• be legible. After you publish your post, check to be sure it is legible. Correct formatting mistakes.