1. Blogging in the Composition Classroom? A Brief Pedagogy Workshop for the University of Louisville Composition Department (9.30.09) By Ryan Trauman

2. Scalable Big audience Small audience Self

3. Social Networking Tools Reverse posting Facebook Twitter

4. Writing Technologies Paper Word processing Email Discussion boards Mobile phone

5. Discourse Communities FiveThirtyEight.com, TheDailyNorsemen.com, PerezHilton.com

6. Beyond the Classroom Potential Public Audience Continue post-course

7. (Basic Web Design Skills?) Links Images Embedded video Textual Formatting

8. Assignment #1: Individual Blogs Traditional Rhetorical Analysis Public Identity Discourse Communities Reflection

9. Individual Blogs 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

10. Assignment #2: Class/Group Blog Collaboration Community Discussion Student Texts

11. Class/Group Blogs 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

12. Available Local Resources Blackboard / Delphi Center ADCs and your colleagues Digital Equipment (see Hung) Blogger.com Wordpress.com

13. 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/)http://www.john-benson.net/blogstudy/) Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy: The Next Powerful Step in 21st- Century 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

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