WinK Core: Weblogging in Kumamoto

Excerpt from Ch. 10 of Clark and Sousa (2018) Clark, Alexander; & Sousa, Bailey. (2018). How to Be a Happy Academic. London, UK: Sage Publications.

Explanation of when to use and how to key in en dashes

The guide for Book Trailers is remarkably similar to a template for book review blog posts

Morris has compiled "ten tips for making your blog posts easier to read" (¶6).

In this post, Kathleen Morris introduces a Blogging Bootcamp for students, and "four additional courses specifically for educators looking to upskill in particular areas of blogging, online communities and technology" (Teacher courses, ¶1).

Tips for avoiding common problems you can apply to individual blogs as well.

In this article, Spearie (2017) outlined a "process to familiarize students with the conventions of literature reviews, to help them analyze their own research to find the appropriate organizational style, and finally to enable them to write their own literature reviews" (¶2, 2017.08.04). The article and appendices are available as a PDF. Reference Spearie, Jen. (2017). Teaching literature reviews to EAP students. _TESOL Connections_ (August 2017). http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2017-08-01/2.html

In this article, Spearie (2017) outlined a "process to familiarize students with the conventions of literature reviews, to help them analyze their own research to find the appropriate organizational style, and finally to enable them to write their own literature reviews" (¶2, 2017.08.04). The article and appendices are available as a PDF. Reference Spearie, Jen. (2017). Teaching literature reviews to EAP students. _TESOL Connections_ (August 2017). http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2017-08-01/2.html

"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet" (Timeline JS, Overview, 2017.01/11).

Screencast demonstration of quotation, paraphrase, and reference composition techniques by Trey Erwin (2015)

Screencast demonstration of quotation, paraphrase, and reference composition techniques by Trey Erwin (2015)

"[T]his review will focus on the iOS iPad version of Duolingo, Apple's 2013 App of the year (Duolingo, 2014) in English (L1) with French as the target language (L2)" (Overview, ¶2)."

"[T]his review will focus on the iOS iPad version of Duolingo, Apple's 2013 App of the year (Duolingo, 2014) in English (L1) with French as the target language (L2)" (Overview, ¶2)."

"Title: Persuasive letter about persuasive letters Description: A letter which attempts to persuade the reader to write their own persuasive letter, and which highlights some of the main points to include. Category: Primary English/Literacy > Non-fiction"

"HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.

"A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized" (n.d.).  Thanks to Sandra Nelson for pointing this out to the LearningwithComputers group way back when!

In this April 1st post, Waters lists useful widgets and points out a demo blog where most are in use. Then she provides instructions for adding them to a WordPress blog.

Explanations and examples of in-text citations

Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/

"If you want to get published, you have to write in a way that makes people want to read. And if you want anyone-students, peers, legislators, donors-to listen to you, you have to speak to them, not read to them." (Toor, 02 March 2015, ¶23)

I really like lesson number 8: "In order to be a better writer, you have to read! Many of my posts were inspired by something I read. I want to especially thank all of the other education bloggers out there sharing their knowledge!" I agree completely, and would like to thank Dr. Cook as well for providing just that sort of inspiration.