I've proposed to Haverford's Educational Policy Committee that I offer a first-year writing-intensive course in Fall, 2004, about blogs. Here's the draft description:
A review of self-expression on the Internet, with special attention to weblogs produced in adolescence and adulthood. Students and the instructor will form a friends group using LiveJournal or similar software to construct mutually-linked individual weblogs and will use these to share personal experiences, to annotate and discuss course readings, and to practice more and less structured writing about the psychology of such biographical discourse. Discussions will focus on existing biographical materials avaliable on the Net, on discussions of these by psychologists, and on our own experience of reflecting on each other's writing.
The reading list will grow and link from:
TomD points to evidence that the writing-teaching community is now interested in classroom blogs:
I've lots to learn, as I try to pay off on the speculations of a decade ago.There is a pretty vigorous group of rhetoric/composition scholars who have been exploring the intersections of emerging technology and writing (and teaching writing) for the past 20 years or so.
Good luck, Doug! Is this a place for feedback and notes?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | February 15, 2004 at 06:34 PM
I wish I could take that class! I have blog (My URL) and I think the writing form of blogging is really interesting.
Posted by: Lorna Quandt | February 23, 2004 at 12:08 AM