While students are exploring and hearing lectures, they’re asked to reflect on their experiences through a series of structured and unstructured posts. The unstructured posts are a chance to log what they’ve been up to and take time to reflect and synthesize on what they’re seeing. The structured posts challenge students to go out into the community to find some of the things we learn about I’ll be sharing my experiences leading the class on this platform as the course continues.  We also encourage them to talk to locals and write about those conversations within their reflective activity.

Flags for Tour de France (starts July 1 in Copenhagen!)

Cycling through Nyhavn

Here’s how we describe it on the syllabus:

Entries can include a mixture of text, photos, sketches, or other methods appropriate to the students’ discipline that can record evolving thought processes and observations on site. Keeping a blog for reflection is required and we will make a master web page that links to all student blogs. Note that your blogs may be shared on Twitter and other platforms to discuss the class, so the writing style and content should be professional. If appropriate, you can use handwritten graphics and notes to feed into a web-based blog. Within your blog, we also encourage you to have conversations with locals about the topics you’re writing about. To inform your blog, find 10 ordinary people (citizens, students, faculty or staff) who bike and ask them about it. These conversations can feed into either structured or unstructured posts. Additionally, we encourage you to explore the literature (both what’s provided below and through your own research) to inform your blogs.

Feel free to follow along with the students and professionals joining on the trip below:

Here’s Marc’s 2019 version of this: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/2019abroad/2019/07/10/blog-of-blogs/