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Monday, May 4, 2020

Final report blog posts should include more than words alone...

And you should want them to, half the creative fun of a blog post is finding ways to "blog up" your text. Remember to check the formatting of your post, and fix it if it spills past the right margin in to the sidebar.

To reiterate, from the previously-published instructions for the final report blog post:
The optional exam is separate from the Final Report blog post (which should include bloggish elements such as hyperlinks, images, video embeds (copy and paste the YouTube embed code, make sure the formatting stays within margins) and can either continue the subject of your midterm report OR take on a new subject such as a post-Descartes philosopher); the final draft is due May 5 (post an earlier draft if you'd like constructive feedback). For examples of what a final report blog post should look like, roughly, check out some of mine...
If you mention book titles, link to them on Google Books or embed them (copy and paste either the URL "share" or "embed" code). Link to relevant articles, don't just list the URLs.

How to insert hyperlinks. Just highlight the text you want to link to and paste the URL over it. For instance, if you mention James's essay "Will to Believe" you can link to the Gutenberg edition online by pasting https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26659/26659-h/26659-h.htm over it. Then, a reader unfamiliar with that essay could quickly jump to it, read a bit, and jump back to your text. Same for proper names like John Dewey etc.

If you don't know how to do any of these simple procedures, ask someone who knows. Even me.

jpo

2 comments:

  1. #5

    Dr. Oliver, these are posted on the side panel of the site. Are these still considered as options?


    "StoryCorps
    Here's another final report option: go to the StoryCorps website and read about StoryCorps. Get the StoryCorps app. Use it to record an interview with an older person (grandparent, maybe) you consider wise. Ask them the sorts of questions we've been asking ourselves this semester in CoPhi. Share the result with us, in your final report blog posts, and with posterity."

    " "This I Believe"
    Another final report option: Read and listen to others' "This I Believe" essays, and post your own (as I did-see below), at their website and on ours. I did. (May be time to update this...)"

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