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Creating Content

Throughout the semester, students, in groups of four, are responsible for creating a blog post. In addition to the required posts below, please any posts on content that you find interesting that relates the course! Art, science, climate change, Anthropocene, etc…..

The required blog posts will be (1) summaries of your presentations, (2) instagram posts, and (3) brief summary of sessions held at CAA, the annual College Art Association Conference. Each CAA session consists of four twenty minutes papers. The presentation of the papers is followed either by a question and answer period or a response by a discussant, who is typically another scholar in the field. Each student is responsible for a 500 word summary of one of the papers. These papers will be uploaded as a blog post on our Blogs@Baruch site. The posts will include the summary text and image. Posts will address the following: 

What is the subject of the paper? 

What is the speaker’s thesis?
What examples does the speaker provide? 

What conclusion or conclusions does the speaker draw at the end of the paper?
What is your response to the subject?

** Posts must be uploaded by midnight on the due date. 

** Posts must include a citation that notes the conference and session date and speaker. 

Responses

Each student is required to read and comment on each other’s blog posts by midnight the day after the blog is posted. 

Directions for Posting

  • click on Dashboard
  • select Add New. The tab is at the top of the page: +New

You can also click on posts at the left-side menu of the dashboard. 

  • add title
  • Start typing or cut-and-paste your text in the text box. 
  • Click save draft just in case although it should be saving automatically
  • Click preview 
  • Click publish once you are satisfied
  • To add images in the text where appropriate:
    • click on an empty block and you will see a plus sign on the far right. 
    • click on the plus sign.
    • choose the image graphic. 
    • click upload files
    • drop files or select files
    • back in the media library, select the image you would like to add to your post
    • click insert into post
  • make sure to label each image (in a smaller font that your post text) with artist or author and date, location, etc. 
  • Make sure you hit SAVE or UPDATE if you make any changes after publishing the post, at the upper right
  • Click PUBLISH at the upper right.

*** to get back to the dashboard, click the WordPress ‘W” at the upper left ***