Archive for December, 2005
Discussion with Sara and Linda
Sara Jameson, Linda Barnes, and I have been emailing about blogs v. journals, blogs v. discussion boards, and blogs in the classroom. I’m going to post excerpts from our emails here and we’re going to start replying here (for some practice using blogs and to extend the conversation to anyone who reads this):
Here’s excerpts from [...]
Federman’s article discussed at Weblogg-Ed
From Weblogg-Ed (I haven’t read the Federman article yet, but it looks fascinating):
I love questions, especially ones that make me think real hard about the answer. Maybe that’s why I’m having so much fun these days, ’cause there are so many difficult questions being posed about education and technology and the mixture of the two.
Via [...]
blogs more successful than discussion boards
A few days ago Sara Jameson emailed me and asked why blogs are more successful than discussion boards. This was my reply:
I can’t be completely certain as to why a blog is generally more successful than a discussion board - but I’ve noticed that it’s the case in other things I’ve read as well. Here’s [...]
a new metaphor for teaching
Anne French Dalke writes:
Rejecting “balancing” as too rigid, too binary, and “juggling” as too tricky, too dangerous (who wants to think of her kids as a juggler’s toys?), Kaye arrived at “emulsification”: the suspension - not the mixing - of small globules of one liquid in a second. (Consider salad dressing, a mixture of oil [...]
read them all
College next. Freshman writing. We’re reading a Hemmingway short story; the prof is criticizing the staccato dialogue between husband and wife. When I defend it as appropriate to this exchange, Professro Fehrenbach responds, “ALL of Hemingway’s characters talk that way.” And the world suddenly opens up for me into a maze of texts. I realize [...]
distributed knowledge while instant messaging
My friend Keith and I were just talking at Interzone, and he mentioned my previous post on distributed knowledge, and he brought up how when we use instant message clients (e.g., AIM), when someone else mentions something that we don’t know about, we often google it instead of admitting we don’t know. For example, if [...]
on what a “knowledge log” should be
After writing my seminar paper for English 595 (on k-logs), I am left reflecting on what a knowledge log should be. A lot of my posts were simply remediating note cards, serving as a place to keep quotes and paraphrases as well as citations. I think this is a huge advantage of blogs - this [...]
when blogs go down in the classroom
I just came across this post on Konrad Glogowski’s Blog of Proximal Development, in which he discusses how the blogware (blogging software) for the composition course he teaches crashed, and how he had to replace it. A few excerpts…
On students writing in MS Word instead of the blog:
“You know that assignment last night that we [...]
sharing your brain: making your hard drive into a wiki
Now playing: “On Being Radical” by Stephen Downes.
From Sharing Your Brain: Making Your Hard Drive into a Wiki (via Weblogg-ed). I haven’t had time to read it yet, because I’m writing a paper, but this looks interesting:
When technologies reach a tipping point, they can suddenly lead to dramatic changes in human behaviour, at least among [...]
Check out Bazerman book sometime
I think this might be interesting to read:
Bazerman, C. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
