Category Archives: Blogs in Classrooms

so, i’m a stalker…

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Michael

A few days ago, I set up my bloglines account, and today, after adding some friends’ blogs and such, I got up to 67 feeds, which is a bit ridiculous. Of course, not all of these are “blogs” (as of … Continue reading →

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risky teachers, shifts in thinking

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Michael

In composition we are often trying to get our students to come up with something provocative. I’ve struggled a few times with students who want to write an argumentative paper as a report and a few times with students who … Continue reading →

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on blogs in the classrooms…

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Michael

Will Richardson quotes Barbara Ganley on he benefits of blogs for her students: the asynchronous nature of the discussions allowed the writers the time to slow down their thinking, to consider the contributions of their peers and to repsond thoughtfully … Continue reading →

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Tryon’s use of blogs in the classroom

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Michael

I just read Charles Tryon’s “Writing and Citizenship: Using Blogs to Teach First-Year Composition,” and I was amazed with how public his course became right away. His first assignment to students was to post a blog post analyzing the rhetoric … Continue reading →

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blogs as lunchroom chatter

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Michael

Geoffrey Nunberg writes in Blogging in the Global Lunchroom: Taken as a whole, in fact, the blogging world sounds a lot less like a public meeting than the lunchtime chatter in a high-school cafeteria, complete with snarky comments about the … Continue reading →

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