Testing my new RSS feed I am having some trouble coding up my new RSS feed. If you’ve got a content aggregator, and you’d like to let me know how my feed works for you, please let me know. BTW… What’s a content aggregator? Similar:Rhinoceros in Love (World Drama — China, 1999)The blurb for a…
Diaries and journals are a longstanding fixture of writing and foreign language classes. Journals are also commonly employed in other subjects, including lab notebooks in the sciences, and sketch books and portfolios for teaching the arts. Teachers often encourage students to keep notes of their own, and sometimes use these notes as an additional indicator…
Much of the Blogosphere’s current claim to fame, of course, has to do with its outward criticism of already established individuals and institutions. Blogs have been responsible for keeping Big Media on its toes and correcting common errors, misjudgments and mischaracterizations that have been spread by Big Media regarding various important stories and issues. Blogs…
Check out this news item from Userland CEO Scott Young who started getting calls from Chris Allbritton’s NYU students yesterday who were doing a story on blog software companies… —Student Journalists Outed Via Weblog (Weblogg-ed) One more hazard of edublogging to worry about! Similar:The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading Random House, which…
Most of what is being said regarding blogs in composition has been said before. Looking at the ?Guidelines for Using Journals in School Settings? approved by the NCTE on Commission on Composition on November 28, 1986 drafted by [Toby] Fulwiler, it seems that the basic assumptions of learning through blogging have been stamped as legitimate.…
Writers have always used the net to distribute novels and poems that could appear in print. But there’s a tradition of experimenting with online forms such as email and chatrooms to tell stories that could only work online. Writers are taking this further by working with blogs. Indeed, with their short daily entries, reader feedback…
Lawley is not alone in looking to blogs as a potential escape from the “course as online powerpoint slide” stranglehold of today’s commercial course management systems. Charles Lowe of Cyberdash.com recently published an account of his own experience using open source weblogs (PostNuke) to support his online writing class; in a companion piece he compares…
In an online world where bloggers’ frenzied mutual promotion seems increasingly the norm, the Wiki emerges as an oasis of dignified restraint. It was invented in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, who now works for Microsoft. But the underlying idea of the Wiki – a Web page that anyone can edit or even delete – could…
A new development in composition appears and those interested in that development use CCCC as a place to find each other, to learn just how much interest exists in the new development. Often the SIG tries to map the field, figuring out what’s in and what’s not, trying to locate the work in relation to…
Small academic organizations looking for publicity but lacking the funds for a web designer, teachers interested in exposing their students to feedback from real-world audiences, and individuals who simply like to write may all find weblogs valuable, even outside the setting of a composition classroom. We already see barefoot and pajama-clad students in the classroom;…
Web loggers, or bloggers for short, are that new breed of armchair documentarian, chronicling the day’s events — politics, sports, music, arts, family, dating life, anything — on Web sites that are updated daily, or several times a week. But unlike a newspaper Web site, which brings a new front page with new stories each…
43.75 % My weblog owns 43.75 % of me. —Does your weblog own you? Hmmph. I thought it would be more than that. One question about dating really doesn’t apply to me. Similar:Photo of William Crowther, 2012I just noticed that a few days ago, a Wi…CybercultureMy Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook DataThe Cambridge Analytica scandal…
Throughout the conference I went to several sessions on blogging. I’m not convinced, however, the presenters who claimed to be blogging are actually blogging. They’re using blogging software, their students use blogging software, but I’m not convinced that using the software is the same as blogging. For example, does posting writing prompts for students constitute…
We the “early adopters”have been playing with blogs in our classes for awhile now. We’re loved them just for the sake of loving them. We’ve evangelized them to our peers and our students, with mixed success. But now, blogs must pull their pedgagogical weight. It’s no longer enough to just put a student blog collective…
Mike Vitia Blogs the 4Cs (Vitia) Mike Vitia has a good series of blog entries covering several sessions at the 4Cs, including the great panel by Terra, Charlie, and Clancy, of which Mike had this provocative, if vague, observation: “Most of us know that the theories of Landow and Negroponte lie broken and useless: how, then,…
Departures and Arrivials in the Blogosphere The Invisible Adjunct says goodbye. Noam Chomsky says hello. Two links that rocked my world on a Sunday evening, courtesy of CultureCat. Similar:Poetry Stimulates the Brain's Reward-Anticipation Arousal Near Ends of StanzasI fixed the NY Mag’s clickbaity title, “…AestheticsHappy Easter 2019 Current_EventsTrump Is Making Journalism Great AgainLong gone are…
My “Computer Connection” section (in a distant corner of the main exhibition hall) was more interactive than I had expected, so I didn’t get to cover all my material — notably this list of “good practices” for using blogs in the classroom. Since a “real” weblog is a license to write whatever and whenever you…
[Grr… the Word file that has my abstract in it won’t open on this public terminal on the convention floor. I’m retyping this from my lecture notes.] When a curricular weblog program was made available to all students, faculty and staff at a small liberal arts university, the students, expected to blog as part of…
Sarah Jane Sloane, “Blog is My Co-Pilot: Blogs in a Graduate Classroom.” Cynthia Cox, “Blogging and the First-Year Composition Classroom” Bonne Smith, “All Along the Blogwatch Tower” Lisa Langstraat, respondent: “In Blog We Trust”Teaching the Blog (CCCC 2004) I wasn’t able to meet Sarah Jane Sloan, whose dissertation on interactive fiction, Interactive Fiction, Virtual Realities, and…
As you’ve probably noticed, the look of this page has been updated. What do you think of the new look? (Please leave your opinion in the comments for this entry. For reference, here’s the old look.) Put a +2, +1, 0, -1, or -2 at top of your comment indicating how you feel. FYI This…