Archive for May, 2006
New Research Summit Post 3: Introductions on the Blog
Wrote one student as she was introducing herself to Lisa’s blog: Next: Gee’s Post to Our Blog
New Research Summit Post 2: The Presence of Others
The class blog for Lisa Ede’s Fall 2005 course English 495/595: Language, Technology, and Culture. The Presence of Others Next: Introductions to the Blog
New Research Summit Post 1: Sisyphean Task
This is issue #7 of my zine, which I published in May 2005 shortly before moving from Iowa. next: The Presence of Others
classroom as contact zone
Today I was just thinking again about Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone”, and how the classroom is a contact zone. I was particularly thinking about this as how it is a contact zone of cultures (“academic” and “beginning writer,” “teacher” and “student,” “adult” and “young adult” or “child”) and how the writing [...]
post-process pedagogy
I just read: Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. “Post-Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philsoophical Exercise.” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Victor Vellanueva. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. 97-125. In this essay, Breuch articulates that the teaching of the writing process is too much of a what-centered pedagogy, a body of knowledge. Post-process theory is meant [...]
responses to my I-search essay
Today we got our I-search essays back (mine available as a pdf here) along with responses from classmates. It was really cool to get some feedback on an essay that I think was fairly risky. I wanted to write about some of the responses, because they got my wheels turning. One classmate wrote back and [...]
ideas from serfaty
As Sara and I think about our paper, we might keep some of the ideas from Serfaty’s book in mind, particularly: polyphony oralization community building conversation the use of humor embodiment and disembodimen gender fluid bodies
on the self-reflexivity of online blogs
I’m still skimming/reading Serfaty’s book, and I just read about self-reflexivity. I think it’s interesting that she quotes/translates Lejeune: “the beginning of a diary is nearly always emphasized. People seldom begin without saying so. The new writing territory is staked out in one way or another” (Serfaty 31, qting Lejeune 2000a: 209). Serfaty notes that [...]
how do bloggers blog so openly?
This is especially interesting after Sam asked me about me being worried that people might read my personal thoughts on my blog: How then can we account for the fact that the screen, which functions metaphorically as a veiling device, actually seems to enable diary writers to violate the codes of opacity instead of locking [...]
how to research blogs
In The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs, Vivian Serfaty describes two approaches to analyzing online journals/diaries: 1) as literary sources (literary studies), and 2) as primary sources (social sciences). The literary approach views online diaries as a creation of a fictional self, of a fictional identity, no matter [...]
