Jessica Prokop thought the textbook for her class at Seton Hill University was biased and that its author “seems like a bitter man.” In the annals of student rants, nothing extraordinary there. Except she didn’t just blurt out those words in her journalism class. She blogged them. Soon, the author himself was responding all the…
Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space…
Blake Ranking wrote “I did it” on his blurty.com journal three days after the October 2004 crash that caused a friend’s death and left another seriously injured. He had previously told investigators he remembered nothing of the crash and little of its aftermath. —Teen Guilty Of Manslaughter After Online Confession (AP | The Pittsburgh Channel.com) If…
Journalists “are not Emily Dickinson writing poetry on backs of envelopes, not caring whether anybody reads them.” Given the state of the industry, with newspaper circulations dropping and publications closing, Collinger said that part of the plan is to develop data and “customer driven communications” is integral to making sure the “cobbler’s children have shoes,”…
Because so many deaf children have problems with basic language skills, they get a disproportionate number of exercises related to these “abstract little pieces.” And unfortunately, that’s exactly what most educational games offer–more of the same thing that’s been shown not to work for these people. So what do I propose? For one thing, I…
[Blogging] makes everyone a producer of news, for one thing. Not everyone does create news, some just transport them also. Every blogger does a bit of both, I guess. And that adds up to a sort of global brain, which digests ideas or discovers facts and such. The speed and variety of this conversation might…
What I have done is taken two blog entries from the same story: The Yellow Wallpaper. I have taken one blog from when I was a freshman, and another blog from this year’s American Literature course. I feel that these essays are written from two completely different people. I am going to leave both of…
Since this will be my last drama wildcard, I wanted to say goodbye & good luck to everyone in our class. It has been a fantastic semester and I had a great time. I came into this class thinking I had nothing more to learn (damn senioritis), but I was wrong. I not only developed…
Blogs are the latest form of electronic information that law enforcement is examining as part of investigations, and experts predict they’ll become even more relevant as their popularity grows. “We have to look at that as a new medium to solve crimes,” said Cmdr. Christopher Vicino of the Pasadena, Calif., police department. “We would be…
Turning to a few student samples we can see this concept exemplified even more. Below is a quote from one of Dennis Jerz’s students. This is one of the student’s first postings, and you can see his/her enthusiasm about designing and creating a blog. September 08, 2004: LOOK AT ME, I HAVE A BLOG! I…
Each of the following uses a weblog or content management system to manage the site and/or really breaks traditional conventions in other ways, changing the way that the teacher establishes their professional ethos in comparison to the more traditional forms seen above. —Example Instructor Professional Home Pages (Introductory Composition at Purdue: Technical Mentoring) Just doing a…
I’m back! (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) Last Friday afternoon, my site went down. Trying to access the homepage yielded a message that the owner of the site should contact billing@[ISP]. I assumed that there was a mix-up in terms of paying our ISP for the next year of hosting, but our billing people say that we paid…
This is Denny Hastert and welcome to my blog. This is new to me. I can’t say I‘m much of a techie. I guess you could say my office is teaching the old guy new tricks. But I‘m excited. This is the future. And it is a new way for us to get our message…
At first glance, it seems like a regular blog. But look closer and you’ll see there’s something very odd about the blog’s content: It’s very familiar. Too familiar. That’s because you wrote it, six months ago, on your own blog. The rest of the content doesn’t make sense: The same word repeated over and over…
SHU’s blogs are down for the moment. If the blogs don’t get fixed soon, my news writing students can leave comments on this entry in order to prepare for their oral presentations scheduled for Friday. Update: Blogs are back up. Nevermind.EL 227 Student Blogging Similar:A hedge fund’s ‘mercenary’ strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell the…
Officials at Proctor Jr.-Sr. High School have banned access from school computers to an Internet site that students have been using to post to weblogs, or blogs. Principal Chris Sousa said the decision to block the site from school was made because blogging is not an educational use of school computers. —Brendan McKenna —High school…
Rather than looking into my blog to see if I have any new comments and then staying on my own page to read and reply, I go to my blogroll and move out into other people’s blogs, to see what they are up to. —Torill Mortenson —Noted difference (thinking with my fingers) Torill comments on her…
Currently I work a very WIDE room for my freshman composition class. I’d estimate it’s about four seats deep and ten seats wide. When I lead a standard class discussion, I have to march the length of the room — from the door to the window at the far end — and project my voice…
As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day About…
A. A suburban teenager’s online diary, bursting with angst-y Goth poetry and “creative” grammar. B. An alternative news source that can break stories the mainstream media won’t touch. C. A scholarly notebook, where a professor reviews books, brags about student accomplishments, and posts occasional cat pictures. D. A list of web addresses, often focusing on…