Blog post task
This post may be used as a template for your own blog post (see source code).
To obtain credit for the course Open Science in applied linguistics and SLA, all participants are required to attend ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas and to co-author a blog post about one of the sessions. Up to three authors can collaborate on a blog post. High-quality posts will be published here on the course website. You may choose to publish your post with your real name or a pseudo name, as you prefer.
This blogging task was motivated by higher education research that has shown that, on average, students achieve higher degrees of learning through blogging (see, e.g., Garcia et al. 2019).
Contents
Your blog post should be 400-600 words and provide an informative summary of:
- The topic of the session
- The preparatory reading of the session (if there was one)
- The main points of the guest talk
- The most important aspects of the discussion
- What you personally found particularly interesting
- Any open questions/further personal thoughts that you have on the topic
Your post should be written such that a student who is not attending this course can easily understand it.
Also, don’t forget to mention the title and date of the session, as well as the names of the speaker(s) and to include bibliographic references to any sources that you draw on or mention in your blog post.
Format
You must write and submit your blog post as a Quarto document (“Tutorial: Hello, Quarto,” n.d.). You are encouraged to use the source code of this example blog post as a template.
Your blog post may be illustrated with:
- Photos that you took during the session (provided that you have obtained permission from the people photographed!)
- Screenshots from the guest speaker’s slides (if they made them publicly available), and/or
- Any other images to which you have the rights (see, e.g., “Quickstart Guide: Openly Licensed Images and Attribution,” n.d.).
In addition, you must provide a small image for the main blog page. Its filename should be mentioned in the Quarto document header (the YAML).
Your blog post may also include subheadings, text boxes, tables, and/or bullet points, as you like.
Submission
Blog posts must be submitted within 14 days of the session via e-mail to Elen Le Foll. Submissions should be made as a zipped folder named as follows: YYYY-MM-DD-short-blog-title. This folder should contain the following files:
All of the submitted files should have filenames that are both human- and computer-readable (see Le Foll, n.d.)
Further questions
If you have any questions about this task, please contact Vishar Kavehamoli via e-mail.
References
Citation
@online{2025,
author = {, Elen},
title = {Blog Task Description},
date = {2025-04-02},
url = {https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/os-linguistics2025/posts/2025-04-02-blog-task/},
langid = {en}
}