Before you look ahead to Week 5, I hope you’ll take a moment to review my class feedback related to the 1st blog post. I’ve reviewed enough to know this information can help most of you, and if this ensures you each review the feedback, I can wrap up that grading a lot faster, without cutting and pasting this information into your Bb evaluation.
My feedback on topic ideas is posted separately. In this post, I wanted to reiterate and further explain some of the information in your syllabus about blog posts. Very few students used individualized titles or tags in Week One and, although most included pictures, the placement was not ideal for a professional-looking blog post.
Because there were a number of misunderstandings, the Week 1 post is not being included in your final grade. Depending upon the instructions for Weeks 2 -4, I may be lenient in grading those posts. I will not show leniency for the next blog post, in Week 6.
Tags and titles should be individualized. When it comes to titles, the syllabus notes:
You will each choose to discuss different companies, study ideas/topics, and sources. Use those individual inspirations for a post title, not the week or the assignment. That will help all of us better differentiate your work from a classmate’s work.
When it comes to tags, all presentations should have the “presentation” tag. With that tag your presentation and everyone else’s is easy to see in Class Resources > Presentation. I will frequently use the tag to find and review recent presentations, especially for grading. So, if you forget to use a “presentation” tag in your presentation post, I might not find it.
Other than presentations, tags are pretty much like titles, individualize them. As noted in the syllabus:
Tags can help you add further detail and individualization to your post,
ensure your presentations are graded, and find classmates with similar interests.
They can individualize your post because they are sometimes required to address
theoretical concepts or general topics you are examining in the assignment that
might be different than some of your classmates. Finally, once you have tagged
and published your post, you can use that tag to see any other posts from other
students who also used the tag. In this way, different students who examine social
media, for example, can see what other students are finding on that topic and
whether it’s relevant to their work.
That’s why the Week One post should have had a few different tags individualized to you and your topic. Week Two should be tagged with your categories and technologies. Week Four works best with a tag or tags related to the industry you examined, such as “media” or “cybersecurity.”
Titles should be individualized and make sense as headlines. They should be very short, perhaps three to five words. The long title for this post only works because it is a title and subtitle.
If you watched the video with the Week 3 Overview, you may already understand that. If you didn’t watch the video, I encourage you to check out how I explained these expectations and blog navigation in general to a classmate of yours. I’ve included the video below in case you missed it earlier. And, if you want to jump around, you can use the search icon in the lower right of the video to search the closed captioning for a particular word, such as “title.” Or, you can use the chapter icon just above search to review and jump directly to a “chapter” of the video.
If you are still unsure of how to better format future posts, email me. Let me know that you are in INF 405, what material you are writing in response to and how you interpreted that material.