Monday, June 02, 2003
I visited "Year of the Weblog" again and started following some trails.
Charlie Lowe, from FSU, comes up, of course: five reasons to use blogs in a course:
1) Individual blogsites are personal writing spaces--drawing upon the journal analogy--which students can/may/will feel that they have some ownership.
2) Blogsites are obvious parts of the World Wide Web.
3) Community blogsites privilege teacher writing less than proprietary CMS's.
4) Community blogsites as I have used in the class above, because they are not gated communities and because of the chronological posting characteristics of blogs, are easier to keep up with.
5) Via linking, blogging is a good way to teach students to create connections to electronic texts, making stronger the connection that the writing they do is part of a larger discourse. If they feel a part of a discource, they may be more interested and/or more willing to participate in it.
I actually got to the post above from Samantha Blackmond's Blog--she's a prof at Purdue who blogs, MOOs, and teaches classes I would love to sit in on.
And from her site I got to a nice set of tips, like Charlie's, from James Farmer. He has been musing about pros and cons of weblogging for a while, and has filtered some nice discussions / articles.
Charlie Lowe, from FSU, comes up, of course: five reasons to use blogs in a course:
1) Individual blogsites are personal writing spaces--drawing upon the journal analogy--which students can/may/will feel that they have some ownership.
2) Blogsites are obvious parts of the World Wide Web.
3) Community blogsites privilege teacher writing less than proprietary CMS's.
4) Community blogsites as I have used in the class above, because they are not gated communities and because of the chronological posting characteristics of blogs, are easier to keep up with.
5) Via linking, blogging is a good way to teach students to create connections to electronic texts, making stronger the connection that the writing they do is part of a larger discourse. If they feel a part of a discource, they may be more interested and/or more willing to participate in it.
I actually got to the post above from Samantha Blackmond's Blog--she's a prof at Purdue who blogs, MOOs, and teaches classes I would love to sit in on.
And from her site I got to a nice set of tips, like Charlie's, from James Farmer. He has been musing about pros and cons of weblogging for a while, and has filtered some nice discussions / articles.
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