Weekly Blog Postings
Through the semester, approximately every week, you will be asked to post online a response related to the assigned readings. These posts will be on a Tumblr blog made specially for the course. There will be a total of 10 postings (2 points each. 2 X 10 = 20%). Each post will basically be in the form of an image (that you have found) and associated text that is related to readings. I will post on the course website short prompts a class day before each Tumblr post is due. You have to post on Tumblr by 5 pm the day before our class. The goal is to refer to your posts in class the next day as part of a broader discussion. In fact, depending on the particular class, I will call and ask a couple of students to come up to the front of the class and share with us her or his Tumblr image post and tell us a little about it. The goal of this exercise is for you to critically think about the relationship between visual sources and historical analysis. I want you to be able to draw from the ideas in the assigned readings and use those to think in analytical terms rather than in simply factual term.
Guidelines for posting: I will ready and post a prompt by the previous class day. The answer to the prompt will take the form of a picture and text. When you post an image on Tumblr, it has to be properly cited. By that I mean you need to have a link to the original source for the image. Try and find unusual instead of clichéd and/or iconic images that everyone is familiar with. When you write some text, you need to tell me where you got that information from. Post an appropriate URL at the bottom of your text.
Grading: Blog posts will be graded on four numbers: 0 (no posting), 1 (minimal posting), 1.75 (good), 2 (excellent).
Please go here to see the Tumblr blog: Science in Popular Culture
Through the semester, approximately every week, you will be asked to post online a response related to the assigned readings. These posts will be on a Tumblr blog made specially for the course. There will be a total of 10 postings (2 points each. 2 X 10 = 20%). Each post will basically be in the form of an image (that you have found) and associated text that is related to readings. I will post on the course website short prompts a class day before each Tumblr post is due. You have to post on Tumblr by 5 pm the day before our class. The goal is to refer to your posts in class the next day as part of a broader discussion. In fact, depending on the particular class, I will call and ask a couple of students to come up to the front of the class and share with us her or his Tumblr image post and tell us a little about it. The goal of this exercise is for you to critically think about the relationship between visual sources and historical analysis. I want you to be able to draw from the ideas in the assigned readings and use those to think in analytical terms rather than in simply factual term.
Guidelines for posting: I will ready and post a prompt by the previous class day. The answer to the prompt will take the form of a picture and text. When you post an image on Tumblr, it has to be properly cited. By that I mean you need to have a link to the original source for the image. Try and find unusual instead of clichéd and/or iconic images that everyone is familiar with. When you write some text, you need to tell me where you got that information from. Post an appropriate URL at the bottom of your text.
Grading: Blog posts will be graded on four numbers: 0 (no posting), 1 (minimal posting), 1.75 (good), 2 (excellent).
Please go here to see the Tumblr blog: Science in Popular Culture