Hosting a Public-facing Class Blog with GitHub pages and Jekyll

Session participants will walk through an interactive, zero-code tutorial demonstrating how to create and manage a public-facing class blog using the Jekyll site framework and GitHub pages. We will also discuss milestone-based project structure to guide students to successful project completion and authorial strategies to create engaging scholarly web-based content.

After this session, participants will be equipped to:

1. create a Jekyll-based class blog on GitHub pages,
2. guide student authorship of engaging scholarly blog posts that incorporate Markdown-based styling and multimedia elements,
3. structure a milestone-based deadline schedule to help students stay on track for successful preparation of a high-quality written work,
4. facilitate student peer review using GitHub pull requests, and
5. streamline student submission of draft milestones and final piece for publication using pull request status labels.

• slides via Google Slides
• lightning talk slides via Google Slides
• example blog via GitHub Pages
• example blog repository via GitHub
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