A guest lecture on teaching digital composition with blogs that I delivered to Prof. Richard Beach's graduate seminar on Teaching Digital Writing.
Note: It originally included a student podcast on the "Podosphere Blues" slide; the mp3 is not included here.
9/25/07
8. Network literacy is “writing in a distributed,
collaborative environment. Weblogs are the
first native web genre. Serial, unstable,
networked...”
9. “Bringing network literacy to the
classroom means jolting students out
of the conventional individualistic,
closed writing of essays only ever
seen by their professor.”
From Jill Walker's talk at Brown,
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/blog_theorising
talk_at_brown.html
25. Class news?
Individual reflective journal?
Responses to assigned reading?
Building a learning community?
Filter for media coverage of course topics?
Building network literacy?
Engaging the larger blogosphere?
Portfolio for all writing done in the course?
34. Individual Blogs
• Promotes ownership of work
• Encourages reflection
• Unconstrained by community norms
• Demands some technological responsibility