By: kosboot
Did you stop to think that you’re (probably) teaching a “born digital” generation? For those of us born before 1980, a blog is a fascinating tool. To the born digital generation, a blog is probably...
View ArticleBy: asiacont
*Excellent* suggestion about letting them self-select their best work from the blog. I am stealing this for the fall, thank you.
View ArticleBy: sdorley
I really don’t see why you are “fully committed to this form of student work.” What is the ultimate transferable value? You say that it allows them to have a feel for audience, participation in an...
View ArticleBy: Robin Wharton
Katy Crowther wrote a post about running a student-juried “best blog” roundup assignment on TECHStyle: http://techstyle.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=2515. As @bdarcus notes, one really useful advantage to this...
View ArticleBy: Robin Wharton
First of all, thank you for starting this great, useful thread. A lot of people have submitted some good ideas and thoughtful provocations that have me thinking about how–and why–I assign blogging to...
View ArticleBy: Daniel Greene
Feel free to steal my email address from the course site and bug me with any questions. I’ll send along rubrics and what not. -Dan
View ArticleBy: Kirsten Hansen
I honestly hate weekly reading response assignments, regardless of the format. Yes, it potentially allows you to see if students are doing the readings and it gets them writing, but it can feel...
View ArticleBy: Unemployed_Northeastern
I’m glad to hear it. I thought you were Mark Bauerlein for a moment…
View ArticleBy: ofeunf
Have you considered mixing things up. Perhaps one or two of the blogs can be vlogs (video blogs). The experience would be different for the students as well as for the instructor. I am toying with the...
View ArticleBy: plordan
Informality in writing isn’t necessarily evil or useless. Students live in an oral culture, and fostering a written culture–where frequency and fluency are promoted–has value. Including formal writing...
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