Today’s Plan:
- Pre-publication polish
- “Copyleft” (copyright free) images
- Working with Medium
- Populating the Google Doc
- Homework
Pre-Publication Polish
Before we publish:
- Check your first sentence. Let’s review Monday’s first sentence workshop.
- Have you read your article out loud? Seriously?
- Have you remembered to delete your works cited or reference list? Are there links to all cited material embedded in the text?
- Is link text sufficiently meaningful and accessible?
- Do you have a meaningful, copyright-free image for your header? (See below)
I’ll give you ten minutes to go through your article one more time.
Copyleft Images
Before we go to medium.com, I want everyone to identify an image for their article header. Because we are publishing these online, we need to make sure we have copyright permissions for the images we want to use. The easiest way to do this is via Creative Commons’ search.
If that fails, then we can consult a list of free stock photo sites.
Working with Medium
Let’s publish some writing!
- Log into Medium.com. Click on your user profile image in the top-right corner. Select “new story.”
- Write in your title in the title field. Again, remember to craft a title that doesn’t suck. Let’s look at some meduim.com titles and have some fun.
- Copy and paste your article from Google Docs into Medium.com.
- Look for longer quotes in your article–use the quote feature.
- Go to … > Customize title/subtitle. Change the description.
- Add an image. Follow instructions to set it as a featured image. Here’s more instructions for an image on medium. Note: to go full banner, your image size has to be large enough to not pixelate. Note: for those of you retentive like me,
crop the image in photoshop before you upload it. - Make sure you right a description of the image (accessibility) and a credit (name and short link).
- Go to “Publish.” Include 5 topic tags.
Google Doc
I’ve put together a Google Doc.
Homework
Go read one of your classmates’ articles. Leave them some comments in the article. Send them a message.
