m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Today I completed my roundtable presentation on blogging for the Missouri Writing Project.
I’ll update this post soon with a link to the presentation.

I’m in a session today on Drupal, which is a content management system that instructors use to manage their content for their courses.
Instructors can have group blogs, or “story” pages, for their course website. Or, they can post their course documents (syllabus, schedule, etc.) to “book” pages. Instructors can also set up different [...]

I don’t know what is up with my blogroll. Suddenly, all of the links have this debug/id error next to each link. I haven’t changed the original script that Bloglines provided. It’s puzzling. I’m not sure what is up with this. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

I just found this post at I Know What I Know. Scott asks some really good questions about assessing blogging and also links to Clancy’s post on assessing weblogs.
His statement, “perhaps my students’ tendency not to take blogging as seriously as I’d hoped is a reflection of my not taking their blogs as seriously [...]

at USF:
FYC: Blogging: An Introduction
I’m loving the blogging assignments they have.
Beginning in week 3, you will write a total of three blog entries per week. The entries are divided as follows:
–One entry of no less than 250 words must respond, using paraphrase or quotation, to an assigned reading;
–One entry of no less than 250 words [...]

link via Writer’s Edge
Here’s one way to provide a weblog as tenure material: turn your blog into a book at blogbinders. If it looks like a book, feels like a book, has as many pages as a book, has good thoughts, ideas, and analysis like a book, does that make it a book? [...]

Barbara Ganley raises the question, “But do we have a different kind of responsibility to let our students know we’re reading their blogs if they haven’t identified themselves on it nor have they openly identified us yet we know who they are and that they’re, in truth, writing about us?”
I started to comment on her [...]

Donna asked in a post below how we might encourage faculty to start blogging. I’m going to attempt to start a list and if any of my readers have any ideas, please chime in below.
Market your own blog
1. Put blog URL in your email signature line.
2. Send your blog links to colleagues [...]

(via Comp Teaching)
Donna points the way to a discussion brewing at Will R.’s about blogging vs. journaling. I have to say that the reason I want to study blogging (and other forms of electronic communication and visual rhetoric) (even though some people think I’m crazy or stupid) is because of reasons such as those stated [...]

I don’t think Donna is too excited about blogging. I wish we could talk about these issues more in class. You know, if we talked about our public identities as teachers and private/public identities as students, there might be connection points with blogging and creating a public identity that we could draw.
I just [...]