Humak students have the opportunity to write blogs. Agree on making a blog with the lecturer if it is related to a course. The lecturer will guide you through the blog and review the content of the text. Humak's student blogs include:
Through a student's eyes blog
Cultural producers blog
Community educators blog
Cultural production blog of YAMK students
When writing blog post, it's a good idea to keep the following in mind:
- Write a good header
- Write an ingress, who you are, what you study, how the blog relates to your studies (course)
- Use subheadings
- Write short sentences and coherent text, entice the reader in your text to continue reading.
- Use short paragraphs of one to two sentences
- Use images (see instructions for adding images below)
- Be sure to credit yourself as the author
- A length of about 250-300 words is sufficient, long texts of about 1000 words are too long for online blogs, no matter how well done. So, summarize and tell the essentials, even if you have to give up part of your text.
Adding images
- Process images up to a maximum width of about 1000 pixels
- The image should be of the best possible quality (resolution, exposure, etc.)
- Horizontal works best
- At least one image is needed for the student's eyes to blog, but it would be good to have two or three images, from which the communications team can choose the appropriate ones. Images are sent as a separate file, not attached inside the text.
- If the text has news value, the text intended for the blog can be published as news. In this case, at least two images are needed, one vertically and the other horizontally.
- Save the image to your computer with a name that tells about the content, for example: “study trip germany humak community pedagogy.jpg”
- You can indicate in parentheses in the text if you want an image at a specific point in the text (image x here and caption, image name).
- When uploading an image, write a caption and an alternate text. A caption tells background information about the image, and an alternative text describes the image (for example: a man standing beside a dog.) Alternative texts are an acessibility option used in text-to-speech programs.
- The use of images must be authorized by the subject and the photographer, please indicate in the email that these things are in order.
Posting a blog
Send text and pictures to viestinta@humak.fi. The communications team checks and, if necessary, stylizes the text and publishes it on humak.fi pages and distributes it on Humak's Finnish channels. Note. Send the text as a Word file, not a .pdf, or other locked text format. For more information, contact communications (viestinta@humak.fi).
