this blog will provide those of us interested in theorizing blog use in the classroom with a space to hash out ideas, propose theories, invite readers, and debate their possibilities and limitations

 
I'll provide more details later about my moment in the blogo-sun, but if you want to follow the basics, go to Technorati and type in the search term "tryon1101." You should get a list of 35-40 sites that have linked to my course blog. Most of the attention has been favorable, and the people who criticze me, well, they just don't get it (joking).

Even though I didn't intend to attract this much attention, I'm beginning to think that it was a positive experience in that it made the concept of audience incredibly concrete (Rachel Lucas, Joanne Jacobs, and others responded to my linking them with with long, well developed posts). Many of the links are from people who are using blogging for educational purposes, but it's interesting to see how many people denigrate a medium in which they are participants.
posted by chutry at 10:09 AM

 
Hi All,
I am slowly returning to the blogosphere but haven't updated my own blog in months, not since sending it {my life} into overdrive on the diss., but now that's all behind me....for now.

Chuck, I'll be interested to see how things turn out with the writers now perusing students' analyses of their articles. However, if nothing else it illustrates beautifully how blogs are perfect conduits/media for getting students to think about audience and rhetorical situation and accountability in terms of their own writing. Also, blogs are "live" which makes the text dynamic, ever-changing, and dialogic. I wonder how students will analyze blog writing in relation to trad. writing forms and other hypertext such as web projects where they have more 'control' in a sense. Anyway, just blabbing here on a steamy Atlanta Labor Day. Ciao!

Sandra, I just joined your blog, I think, and look forward to reading your posts. How often do you want me to post and is there anything that I need to be addressing in particular, or just my random brilliant thoughts? Y'all can read Sandra's class blog also, but I'm a responder.
posted by Doreen at 4:46 PM

 
Another quick note: I've recently had the experience that my course blog had a brief publicity bump after I linked to several prominent "journalistic" blogs as part of an assignment in my English 1101 course. The response has been pretty interesting so far.

Check out the details at http://tryon1101.blogspot.com/ (especially entires around August 28-September 1).
posted by chutry at 1:09 PM