m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

CNN’s headline proclaims, “A dark era is over,” a quote by GWB. Hmm. I’m on dial-up and can’t load the story. It makes for a good headline, but I’m not sure it’s accurate from a political perspective. Sure, Saddam was an evil dictator and commited countless horrors. And, still, there [...]

I’m sick of ‘forward this or else’ email. This morning in my email I found a miserable email shouting, “You MUST send this on or face dreadfully bad luck.” I know, I know, I should have just deleted it without opening. However, it was sent by a close relative and the subject [...]

This began as an experiment in figuring out the blogger.com tools and posting research notes for a paper I’m writing on blogging and writing. I’d like to try posting more, but I felt constrained by the title of “m2h research.” So, today, I changed the title of my blog from m2h research to [...]

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Dennis G. Jerz at Seton Hill
Topics in Journalism
Writing for the Internet – Fall 2003
300-400 words per week in web journal
The Practice of Journalism – Fall 2003
2-3 online journal entries per week
[Note: Apologies to Dennis Jerz for the typo in his weblog name. It's now corrected in my blogroll to Jerz's Literacy Weblog.]

Was surfing blogroll links and came upon Sebastien Paquet’s post: Online Knowledge Communities. It reminded me that building wikis in a classroom setting could be another way technical literacy is achieved. See Wikipedia. The course webpage could be a wiki.

Today (Dec. 5, 2003) jill/txt posts about her planned talk at brown. She states, “blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it’s distributed and collaborative; it’s learning to think and write with the network ["network literacy"].” Blogging is something we do separate (divided) from each other (distributive). We each post individually [...]

EL 230: Topics in Journalism: Internet
at Seton Hill University (Spring 2001)
http://maura.setonhill.edu/~arnzen/sp01/ijsyll.htm
Dr. Michael Arnzen
blog: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/
Web Requirements:
Web journal – ten entries (100-200 words)
Reading journal – five entries (200-300 words)
e-opinion editorials – five entries (200-300 words)

College English Class
ENC 1101, Summer 2003 – Freshman Composition and Rhetoric
at FSU, Terra Williams
http://cyberdash.net/enc110174/index.php
All writing sumbitted is on the web.
Reader response posts (300 words)
Comments (50-200 words)
Paper Drafts
Papers
Journal Entries
24 students

College English Class Blog
Enc 1101- Writing for Discovery
at FSU (Fall 2003) by cyberdash
http://cyberdash.net/celfa03/
Journal Blog Posts Required
2 posts per week, 150 words each
Reader Response Posts Required
Each reading assignment, 300 words each
Comments to Reader Response
4 posts, 50 words each
Students:
Section B3: 20
Section B4: 12
Link in course calendar to:
What We’re Doing When We Blog
by Meg Hourihan
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html