Use a quotation- as a post title (if brief)
- to provoke thought at the start of your post
- set off in the post with the block quote feature (or a larger font or different color)
- or post a set of quotes (not too long or too many) (example 1 | 2)
Tell a story
Break down a passage
Use an eBook
Make a rant
Use a video
- about finding that great read
- about a book's influence on you
- about being read to aloud
- about reading as a child or to a child
- about a specific copy of a favorite book
- in one sentence / in 140 characters (tweet)
- as a list of adjectives
- copied from your Goodreads
- targeted to a specific audience
- as a parody
Use a picture
- show your own stack of books or your bookshelf
- show yourself curled up with a book
- take a snap of a page from your book (with your notes? example)
- find a picture via Creative Commons related to your book's content
- show a screen shot of your Goodreads library shelves
Highlight a character
- Create a mock Facebook profile for a character (example: Othello | template)
- interview a character (how-to, example)
- "Why I would like / would not like to be friends with [a character]"
- Draw a picture about a character (see my student Aubrie's for As You Like It or the work of several readers-turned-artists here; or this one of Macbeth)
- Show/discuss images others have done of that character (example: Hamlet on Flickr)
Break down a passage- Use colors, fonts, to code for ideas, patterns, images, etc.
- Lay out a passage differently on a page so you can see its parts better
- Point out grammatical elements (verbs, subordinate clauses, sentence length)
- Point out figures of speech (or visually illustrate how those work)
- Underline key words in a passage and then explain them
Use an eBook- tell about reading on a Kindle or tablet
- talk about how your electronic reading experience differed
- share highlights or annotations you made on an eDevice
- review the electronic edition of a book
Make a rant- about how the movie ruined the book
- about how the eBook ruined the book
- about idiot readers who misunderstand good stuff
- about how a reviewer missed the point
- about your former self dismissing what turns out to be great
Use a video- in which you review or promote the book
- as a creative response to what you've read
- such as a clip from a film adaptation
- in which you read memorable passages from the book
Make a word cloud
- Visit wordle.net and browse its showcase
- upload a paragraph, passage, or entire text
- play with results, take a screenshot
- post the word coud and comment on how it makes you think about the literature (example)
This is super helpful! I was having a hard time thinking of things to write about, but I'm definitely going to save this list the next time I have a bought of blogger's writer's block!
ReplyDeleteMan I hadn't even thought of half of these, they were really helpful. I liked some of the out of the box ones like interviewing a character or making a facebook profile for them. I feel like things like that can help us to make our posts more fun while delving deeper into the material.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this help! I am excited to incorporate some of these ideas. They should certainly spice up the posts!
ReplyDeleteThese are a great aid! Thank you for posting all of these suggestions. I really hadn't considered just how many ways there are in which one can play around with blog posts and make them more exciting to read. I will make sure to check back to these often to see if my blogs are more like this.
ReplyDeleteGot here from your Google Plus profile.
ReplyDeleteI actually printed this off, because I think it will help me not just in this class, but in future pursuits.
Coming into this class, I never thought I would be learning to "engage literature creatively and socially." I'm a beginner and your Ten Prompts for Blogging About Literature have opened up so many possibilities to fulfill our learning outcomes, especially the third, fourth and fifth. I printed these prompts off to keep handy as I ponder and write my posts. Thank you for the great ideas and help.
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