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Gian S. Pagnucci, Ph.D. Department of English Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
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English 808: Technology & Literacy
Blog Overview The goal of keeping a Reflective Research Blog to help you reflect on your learning processes and to be shared with other students in the C&T doctoral program (and, perhaps, other people who find these blogs on the web). I'll be giving you some topics to write about in your blog. Discuss these topics as best you can and as much as seems useful/desirable to you. You can also write about other issues in your blog which are related to your student development. And you can create additional blogs for other topics of interest to you. I like to think of blogs as a kind of public free writing space. So things can be rough in your blog, as free writing is often rough, but I also want you to benefit from sharing this writing with others. Blog Style Blogging style varies, of course, but in general most bloggers seem to write shorter entries on a regular basis. A good blog, then, seems to be one where the writer is added new thoughts on a routine basis. So this means it is probably better to write a short entry every day or two rather than really long entries only once per week. The goal of a blog, partly, is to keep ideas fresh and in process. So your writing for your blog doesn't have to be real polished. And it doesn't have to be long and detailed. Instead, use the blog entries as a chance to write shorter reflections/quick thinking about any given topic. Maybe there will be a useful idea here for a class discussion or as a point which can be detailed later in a paper. Your blog is, in my view, a way to capture your spontaneous thinking about a topic. So if you have read some articles for class, your blog writing can help capture and clarify some of your thoughts about that set of issues and hopefully get you puzzling over fresh ideas. I am also NOT looking 4 perfection in ur blog. Typo's r ok, as are emoticons :) and abbrev. I'd like you to think of the blog as a fun space just to play with ideas related to the course. Like a note pad for jotting down and messing with ideas. Collaboration It's obvious of course, but one of the key things that motivates bloggers is having an audience for their writing. Over time, blogs can naturally attack such an audience. But in a classroom situation, we have to do a little work to simulate this audience effect. So for this blog course task, you will be paired up with another student who will collaborate with you on the blog. In this way, you have each person will have someone to read and respond to their blog writing. Additionally, you'll have someone who might be able to help you if you hit any technical glitches (and Dr. Pagnucci will help you to, if you get in a real tech jam!). My hope is also that you will invite other people to read your blog. Other class members, of course, but also other C&T doctoral students, friends, and family. (There's no better reader than a proud mom or dad, truth be told!). In the past, outside visitors have also found students' 808 blogs, so a wider world audience really is just a click away.
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