m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Rachel, a new blogger and librarian at MU, introduced me to the phrase, “money quote” when she asked permission to use one of my students’ posts as PR for Ellis Library because it contained several “money quotes.”
This morning as I was clicking through Bloglines while reading my morning coffee I found the following [...]

In her post, Dot Blog Boom, Halley talks about the affective nature of blogging from its roots to its inherent passion:

It grew up in a culture (think 2000 – 2001 days) of economic disaster and was all about making something from nothing, or less than nothing.
It’s a bit like being the nerdy geek girl who [...]

English 1000 – Exposition and Argumentation, or on the web as:
1000 Arguments
English 2030 – Professional Writing, also on the web at:
2030 Writing
More to follow!
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Donna and I were talking on Monday about reviewing blogs and whether I needed to get IRB approval when quoting or analyzing what professors or students write on their blogs. I just found a bookmark I had made to this post at Clancy’s where she and others were talking about it.

Are you looking for a blog to read? Check out the best of the web in the blogs category at Forbes.com.
via Occupational Adventure (a pick in the career category)

The blogosphere is rich in resources for people who want to get started.
About Blogs
Weblogs defined by Jill Walker at jill/txt
How Blogs Work by Ken Smith
Blogging vs. Posting by Will R. at Weblogg-ed
Using the Tools
How to Use Bloglines by betterdays (tip Ken Smith)
RSS for Educators by Will R. at Weglogg-ed
How to Set-up an Account at Flickr [...]

James Farmer posted Edublogs are go back on April 21, 2005 and I’m just now finding it. I’m glad I found it because Farmer’s post is full of links and it’s a good brief history of blogging in education. He also has links to schools, colleges, and universities that have established school-wide blogging [...]

Donna posted, Sit down, write on Friday. Her post just made me think about all of the memes bloggers pass around. In addition to posting and commenting, those memes keep us interacting with each other. They’re sort of a virtual potluck. When we share food with one another, it helps us [...]

One of the texts we’re reading for the Missouri Writing Project this month is, Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools. One of the pages that I’ve had a sticky note on quotes research from D.E. Freeman and Y.S. Freeman, Between Worlds: Access to Second Language Acquisition. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1994, [...]

Halley bloged yesterday about liking feedback from readers.
I think that those of us who teach writing and use blogs in our classes need to make a point of sharing this idea with our students. Writers like feedback on their writing, even if it’s just to say something along the lines of, thank [...]