BLOGGING GUIDELINES
- Blog entries will address assigned questions for each lesson and be posted according to the schedule on our Course Schedule.
- Blog entries should be a minimum of 500 words.
- Each blog should contain at least two hyperlinks.
- The quality/credibility and relevance of your hyperlinks will impact the instructor’s evaluation. *See an example below please.
- Hyperlinks must be correctly cited using MLA Handbook, 7th ed. style in a works cited list at the end of each blog entry.
- Your links are meant to inspire commentary and provoke insights on your post.
- NO Wikipedia links. Wikipedia can be a good source for finding scholarly sources as well as popular sources which are pertinent to your research concerns. But Wiki is too easy, I want you to broaden your horizons and explore the www for interesting sources that are new to you.
- No links to dictionary definitions.
- No links to Encyclopedias – by all means read the articles for excellent background and bibliographic info; but find more interesting sources for me 🙂
- No links to pages that need a ‘sign-in’ – this includes UBC’s Library. By all means use scholarly sources from the library site, and cite them in your works cited, but don’t use them as one of your links.
- You may choose what kind of source you want to use: scholarly articles, popular articles, , literature, editorials, poems, you tubes, websites, Blogs, images, graphs, National Film board … .
- Images and videos must also be correctly cited.
- Your blogs can be reflective and based solely on your understanding of our assigned readings.
- Or, your blogs may be scholarly and based on outside research.
- Or, you may choose a combination of reflective and scholarly: you have choices to make.
- As the course progresses you will have the opportunity to try your hand at a little story telling with your blogs.
- You will note that your first six blogs are worth 12% and your last three blogs are worth 18%; this is to give you the opportunity to develop your voice as a blogger – so, if this is all new to you, please relax and enjoy the process of learning to blog and hyperlink.
Blog Commentary / Dialogues
Students are required to read two student blogs and post a significant and relevant observation and question in the comment box of each blog.
- The comment offers a new insight or a new example from the text that will enlarge the original answer
- The comment concludes with a question with a measure of complexity
Blog Assignments are found at the end of each lesson.
Example of a blog that hyperlinks with expertise:
HYPERLINKING GGRW
Some excellent websites to use as resources:
- Indigenous Foundations UBC: http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca
- Open School : http://media.openschool.bc.ca/osbcmedia/fns12/etext/BCFN12Text_Part4.pdf
- Coyote Pedagogy Knowing Where the Borders Are in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: http://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit161-162-Coyote(FeeFlick).pdf
- Blackfoot Nation: http://blackfeetnation.com/
A 19th-Century Cheyenne Warrior’s Drawings of His Life as a POW: https://hyperallergic.com/273434/a-19th-century-cheyenne-warriors-drawings-of-his-life-as-a-pow/
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act,: https://www.ictinc.ca/indian-act-art
- WA NI SKA TAN: AN ALLIANCE OF HYDRO-IMPACTED COMMUNITIES: http://hydroimpacted.ca/about-us/
- Media Indigena: https://mediaindigena.libsyn.com
American Plains Indians ledger drawings: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/exploring-the-legacy-of-american-plains-indians-ledger-drawings-an-art-form-weighted-by-tragedy/article19676040/
- Siksikanation Nation http://siksikanation.com/wp/
- Indigenous People’s Network : http://www.indigenouspeople.net/sidemenu.html
- Dragon Fly Consulting Services: http://dragonflycanada.ca
- Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education and Society: http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/19119/16237
- Land Rights and Environmentalist in British Columbia: http://www.firstnations.eu/fisheries/kwakwakawakw-kwakiutl.htm
- National Film Board : https://www.nfb.ca .
- AND https://www.nfb.ca/film/circle-of-the-sun/ NOTE the date of this production and the introduction narrative that frames the present [in 1975]] as the representation of the past. They were so wrong. In place of the extinction the narrative prophecies, what has really happened? REVIVAL
- CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news
- Social Justice.org: http://www.socialjustice.org
- Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100010002/1100100010021
- Assembly of First Nations: http://www.afn.ca
- Indigenous People’s Network: Coyote: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/coyote.htm
- Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/canada-first-nations/
- Ted Talks: https://www.ted.com
- Truth and Reconciliation: http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=580
- Intercontinental Cry: https://intercontinentalcry.org
- Decolonization is not a Metaphor: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554
- The Zapatistia: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
- The Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies initiative report and toolkit: http://landbodydefense.org/uploads/files/VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf
These are examples to get you started, feel free to explore and discover our own sources. Thank you.