Transcript Blogging in the Composition Classroom?

Blogging in the Composition
Classroom?
A Brief Pedagogy Workshop for the
University of Louisville Composition
Department (9.30.09)
By Ryan Trauman
Scalable
Big audience
Small audience
Self
Social Networking Tools
Reverse posting
Facebook
Twitter
Writing Technologies
Paper
Word processing
Email
Discussion boards
Mobile phone
Discourse Communities
FiveThirtyEight.com,
TheDailyNorsemen.com,
PerezHilton.com
Beyond the Classroom
Potential Public Audience
Continue post-course
(Basic Web Design Skills?)
Links
Images
Embedded video
Textual Formatting
Assignment #1:
Individual Blogs
Traditional Rhetorical Analysis
Public Identity
Discourse Communities
Reflection
Individual Blogs
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Read variety of blogs
Demo rhetorical analysis
Student analyzes blog; develops rubric
Student designs/enacts blog in response
Student analyzes own blog w/prior rubric
Student reflects on process
Assignment #2:
Class/Group Blog
Collaboration
Community
Discussion
Student Texts
Class/Group Blogs
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Contributors to Single Blog
Instructor posts prompt
Students respond to prompt
Students comment on responses
Instructor highlights particulars for discussion
Oral & digital discussions in real time
Available Local Resources
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Blackboard / Delphi Center
ADCs and your colleagues
Digital Equipment (see Hung)
Blogger.com
Wordpress.com
Background Readings
• “Learning to Write Publicly: Promises and Pitfalls of Using Weblogs
in the Composition Classroom” John Benson and Jessica Reyman
(http://www.john-benson.net/blogstudy/)
• Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy: The Next Powerful Step in 21stCentury Learning – Diane Penrod
• Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms by Will Richardson
• Classroom Blogging by David Warlick
• “Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog” Carolyn
R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd (available on web)
• “Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks” Laurie McNeill
• “Why I Blog” Andrew Sullivan
• Look in popular magazines and journals like Time, Newsweek,
Washington Post
Thanks.