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Posted in conference on Apr 28th, 2005
In preparing for the SSAW Conference, I posed these questions to my class: Dear Class, I hope you have been having a good year since we parted ways last May. I still have your Portfolios if you would like to stop by my office in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research to pick them […]
Posted in blogging, conference, Learning to Write on Apr 24th, 2005
“Think twice, write once,” I was taught 50 years ago when the execution of writing meant inkwells, and a blotted line equaled slovenliness. Now immersed in the writing process, we encourage our students to create draft after draft, to write one, twice, a hundred times, if needed, in order to create clarity, organization, and a […]
Posted in conference on Apr 19th, 2005
I’m very grateful not to be presenting at dawn: SSAW Program. From the bios and pics, it looks as if our panel, has the oldest (bg and me) and the youngest (Eugene and Piya) paricipants.
Posted in Public vs. Private Writing on Apr 15th, 2005
Tough Decisions About Classroom Blogging When student work is exposed to the world, class dynamics can change in subtle ways. Topics that might have been spoken about freely can become muted on the web. Does a student want to refer to her sister if her sister might read about herself on a class blog? On […]
Posted in conference on Apr 11th, 2005
WP202S04 : April 13 I’ll be working with this journal entry for the conference in May.
Posted in conference on Apr 10th, 2005
Resources and Tools Creating a Community Within the Class Developing Community Beyond the Class Writing the Unsaid For me, using blogs in an academic environment is about having an opportunity to bring discussion and resources to students faster and more completely. I like to create a small world of resources on the blog that expands […]
Barbara Ganley. Eugene Lee, Piya Kashyap, and I are off to this conference in May: Social Software in the Academy Workshop. I plan to be talking about my experience with blog journals in my Writing to Heal class last spring as well as an indpendent course I’m teaching on the same topic this spring.
