m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

As I stated in my last post, I’m giving a talk today at the Missouri Writing Project Summer Institute.
My plan is as follows:
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briefly review what blogging is and mention the other forms of blogging being done
highlight a few place blogs since they are writing about place this summer
discuss places they can go [...]

The teachers in the MWP summer institute are writing about place. I wanted to find a few bloggers who are writing about place and I found Tim Lindgren’s blog. His blog is a project on place blogging and he has quite a few place bloggers linked in his blogrolls. They might also [...]

via Weblogs in Higher Ed
Corporate blogging article that I might use for class discussion/readings in my 2030 Professional Writing class. Also, when I have more time, I want to check out their other free advice (columns, weekly advice, and white papers).

Will R. writes, It’s all about engagement:
There is the palpable energy of a community of learners who are connecting around questions and answers to better understand their own practice and then share back that understanding with the community to further the conversation.
Absolutely.
I think ‘connecting around questions and answers’ is more important for digital [...]

Clarence Fisher of Remote Access and a 7/8 grade teacher at Joseph H. Kerr School in Snow Lake, Manitoba writes about the girls in his class being first adopters:
The kids who are most excited about technology, who are the ones downloading Skype after we talk about it in class and are putting in the most [...]

Drew, one of the students in my professional writing class, did a great presentation on coming up with ideas for what to blog about. Wish I’d written it!!

I keep narrowing my seminar paper and trying to focus more. From the comments I’ve received it seems as if my connections to WAC are more arbitrary and so I may eliminate that area from my paper. Here is my new more focused plan:
Question #1: How are blogs affective?
The affective labor of blogging [...]

Probably 99.9% of my small readership are already advocates of blogging, but Steven D. Krause has an idea that might make academic blogging count with other more traditional audiences:

what if there was a way to put together a journal– maybe print, maybe electronic– that was kind of a selection of different blogger’s entries, perhaps arranged [...]

Donna posted yesterday about blogs and conversations.
It occurs to me that she has post more stuff about blogging and conversations: more meta
I posted a while back about Burke’s unending conversation.
There was also much talk at Collin’s place about conversation relative to Booth’s Rhetoric of Rhetoric and Listening Rhetoric.
All of this conversing [...]

A while back, I said that I was going to think more about what blogging undoes when it comes to affect. Especially related to academia, I think blogging undoes, or has the potential to undo, stuffiness, rigidity, dualistic thinking, etc. It’s not that everything is all happy and nice all the time in [...]