K-logs
The New Research Summit
Lisa Ede and I are presenting at the New Research Summit in Eugene on May 12. Lisa will talk about her research involving citizen reviewers on cites like Amazon.com and on her experience using blogs in the classroom, and I’ll be talking about my use of this blog for classes, research, and now, gradually, my [...]
links to rhetoric and composition blogs
Lisa directed me towards Composition and Rhetoric Weblogs and Weblog Resources. It seems pretty thorough. Check it out!
Writing Center Blog
Dennis Bennett at the OSU Writing Center has created a really cool portal where Writing Assistants can blog about their thougths, anxieties, and experiences. It seems to be a really cool venue for students to post their thoughts about the Writing Center, and their experiences there. Also, I’m quite impressed with the willingness of new [...]
rough draft to article on my blog for WIC newsletter
This is the rough draft of an article that Vicki Tolar Burton asked me to write for the WIC newsletter on using this blog. I thought I’d post it here as well, in case someone who doesn’t read the newsletter wanted to read it (I’ll probably post the final draft when it’s finished as well).
Blogging [...]
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 [...]
ACM: Blood on How Blogging Software…
Blood, Rebecca. “How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community.” Communications of the ACM 47.12 (Dec. 2004): 53-55.
Blood folllows the history of blogging and notices how blogging software adapts to bloggers needs and makes blogging easier. She notes that as a practice becomes more popular, blogging software tends to develop tools to make that practice easier [...]
ACM: Rosenbloom’s “Blogosphere”
Rosenbloom, Andrew. “The Blogosphere.” Communications of the ACM 47.12 (Dec. 2004): 31-33.
This article introduces blogs, gives some background on blogs, and previews a series of articles in this issue of Communications of the ACM, which Rosenbloom edited.
“The research disciplines are especially well covered, from multimedia networking standards to bicycle engineering, from processor thermal design guidelines [...]
10 reasons
the case for using k-logs in research
note to self
don’t forget to check out the blogging article at
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm045.asp?bhcp=1
that Lisa Ede sent me - it’s linked on the sidebar.
Genre Analysis of Weblog - article
Miller, Carolyn R., and Dawn Shepherd. “Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogging_as_social_action_a_genre_analysis_of_the_weblog.html.
This was a really good analysis of blogs as a genre. I [...]
