This blog post is a collection of ideas to help students in my Social Media class create the assigned blog posts.
Getting Started
- Write a blog post that shares information and invites reader sharing (Interactive Blogging)
- Write a blog post with a bullet list and at least one picture; emphasizing your main point (Writing Scannable Text)
- Write a how-to: With screen shots if it’s technical; with pictures; or examples
- Write a “tips & tricks” list on a specific topic
- Live blog an event or session, and write your notes as it happens (different type of writing)
- Write a rant/critique post – complain about something thoughtfully; give evidence and support for your comments
- Write a product review
- Use these tips to write a “great” post
- Write a list, or a case study, or a tutorial / guide
- Compare and contrast two concepts
- Compare and contrast two images
Write a List with 5, 7 or 10 Points
- Write an intro paragraph, paragraph for each of the 5 things (bulleted paragraphs are nice); closing paragraph
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 ideas
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 misconceptions
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 problems that need to be solved – just describe them
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 different solutions to a problem – think outside the box
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 weird things about a topic
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 tools to use to address a problem
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 paths to an end result – think creatively
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 interesting questions about a topic – what are the questions? Describe them… but don’t answer them!
- Write 5, 7, or 10 why questions about a topic
- Write 5, 7, or 10 problematic or sticky questions about a topic
- Write 5, 7, or 10 multifaceted, complex questions about a topic (questions that have multiple answers)
- Write 5, 7, or 10 important / controversial questions about a topic
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 things you wonder about
- Write about 5, 7, or 10 ethical considerations of a topic
Join the Online Conversation: Respond on Your Blog to Another Person’s Blog Post
- Do you agree with the person’s blog post? Why do you agree? What additional examples or scenarios can you give in support? Does the post raise any questions that you want to ask your audience? It’s ok to ask questions and not answer them in your blog posts! What else could you link to, maybe one other site or article, that supports the person’s post? What relationships do you see between their post and other concepts?
- Do you disagree with the person’s blog post? Why do you not agree? Explain why. Give counter arguments supporting by evidence such as an example, another article or situation, etc. How could you synthesize their point of view with yours or another’s to create a new idea or concept? Give several alternative solutions or options in opposition to what they posted. Take their idea in a new direction and elaborate on it. Does their conclusion or point rest on an assumption that isn’t stated? if so, what? Use that to explain your disagreement.
- If you sort of agree but not totally, where are the issues? Are there some parts that you agree with and not others? Why? Give evidence of why your point of view is supported. Use the questions from agree/disagree above to help you with your response.
Take it Deeper
- Consider an argument or statement someone has made: examine each part of the statement. Ask questions about each part. Is it true? What assumptions are behind the statement? Write out your thinking about it.
- Make connections between your field and your faith. Here are 99 questions to spark your thinking
- Consider a current issue or situation. What are at least two things that are influencing that situation? Comment on them or at least describe them.
- Consider a current issue, situation, illustration, graphical element. What are the parts/components and what is the relationship between them?
- Write about a cause and effect. Think of a possible effect in your field (snow falling, poor choices, a healthy body) and explore several the potential causes.
- Identify the elements of a concept or thing. Identify the relationships among those elements. Identify the rules for how those elements interact with each other. Could be conceptual, or skill based.
- Identify a problem and develop hypotheses about how it might be solved.
- Identify a problem, and think of 5 many ideas, rationales or arguments related to the problem.
- Write out a step by step plan for implementing an idea you have.
- Debate the pros and cons of an issue, problem, solution, idea, situation.
Visual and Media Choices
- Create something visually new from two separate parts. Show the two parts and what you created.
- Share 5 photos that explain or illustrate a concept; be sure to use photos where you have permission (i.e. Flickr Creative Commons) and cite the photo sources.
- Share 3 YouTube videos on a topic and include commentary on why you selected them.
- Share a photo or graphic you created and compare it to a photo of something in nature. Compare & contrast or make connections between them.
- Share a photo or graphic you created, with a link or photo of what inspired you.
- Share an infographic you created about a concept with some introductory text.
- Share a how to video with an introductory sentence or two.
- Take any of the “writing” ideas listed above and think of how you could express the idea visually with only a sentence or two accompanying it.
- Illustrate a cause and effect with photos or graphical elements.
- Create a visual mind map of a concept – i.e. a collection of photos of different types of happiness.
- Illustrate the various elements of a concept or thing.
- Categorize or classify 10-20 different things.
- Compare and contrast two graphics, videos, YouTube clips, photos, techniques, software packages, concepts, projects, websites, tools, etc. pick and compare two things.
- Diagram the flow of a procedure or relationship between elements.
- Create a mind map on a concept – show it and include some short explanation.
- Cite/quote/show a graph from a report on the Internet and then generate 5 questions about the graph.
Reusing College Content
- Look through your assignments. Is there a paper you really enjoyed, or felt passionate about? Could you get one or two or three blog posts by condensing and making more precise?
- Think about your current or past courses. Is there a lecture you really enjoyed? What was it about? What could you document / share on your blog? Cite sources and/or your professor? Respond to the topic?
- Take two really different classes you have taken or are taking. What is the overarching concept for each course? Now make comparisons or connections between those two ideas. How do they connect? How are they different? Does one idea remind you of another? Do the two ideas make you think of a third idea?
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