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Cognition at Marquette, Spring 2017: A Postmortem of the Blog Project

The Spring 2017 semester is complete (by a couple of weeks, but I’ve been busy relaxing…) at Marquette University. I had the opportunity to adjunct there, teaching two classes, while looking for a tenure-track position. In Cognition, specifically, I enacted a blog project based on one at the Learning Scientists. It wasn’t the first blog project I’ve done, but quite different in approach and content. Im this post, I wanted to share my thoughts on the project as a trial run, some observations I made with grading, and try to figure out what I am going to do with this project moving forward. I’m open to suggestions and comments–just let me know in a comment below or on Twitter!

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Post: Statement on Sharing to Twitter

Hi all–

I wanted to share that as students post their tips and strategies for effective learning and studying, they will be automatically shared to my Twitter account, @ProfASwan. This post is an attempt to test the Publicizing feature of the site.

Cheers,
Dr. Swan

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This is a test post!

This is text of a test post and helpful tips/hints/suggestions.

Use a standard format, public visibility, category (for post type), tags (for more specific keywords). Let the site generate a slug (after you’ve typed a title), and do NOT use “current location.”

To use a tag, type your keyword, and THEN type a comma. Tags can be multiple words.

If you have another WordPress, make sure you are posting to the correct page! (Look at the site in the upper-left hand corner of the page).

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