1. Blogs and Teaching, Teaching and Blogs

2. What We’ll Do Welcome to the blogosphere. How can blogs help teach? How can we be creative? © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

3. WELCOME TO THE BLOGOSPHERE © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

4. Origins Web + Log = Weblog = Blog Narcissism? © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

5. Self-Publishing Vanity Subsidy POD “True” self-publishing ◦ Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

6. Working Definition A blog is a mechanism that creates a multimedia website Kinds of websites ◦ Billboards  information ◦ Interactive  Information and response ◦ Transactional  Information and commerce ◦ Portals  Gateways to other sites © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

7. Sample Blogs Sample Blogs Aggregators ◦ Art Throb Art Throb ◦ The Good Men Project The Good Men Project ◦ The Huffington Post The Huffington Post Personal ◦ Plainmoneytalk Plainmoneytalk ◦ Dooce Dooce Portal ◦ Arts & Letters Daily Arts & Letters Daily © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

8. Effective Blog Qualities Polymodality ◦ Words ◦ Pictures ◦ Video ◦ Archive Connectivity ◦ Other web sites ◦ Online sources © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

9. Publishing Comparison Paper Cost ◦ high Distribution ◦ expensive Interactivity ◦ little or none Authorship? Blogs Cost ◦ near zero Distribution ◦ no cost Interactivity ◦ immediate Authorship? © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

10. Authorship Propositions Proposition #1 Writing & publishing have always been collaborative. Proposition #2 We teach students to compose so they might be read. Proposition #3 Blogs enable public interactive processes that encourage better writing © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

11. TEACHING WITH BLOGS © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

12. You must remember this… You must remember this… Different websites, different purposes ◦ Billboards ◦ Interactive ◦ Transactional ◦ Portals © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

13. Billboards Showcase student work Showcase group work © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009 BLOGTeacherStudent BLOGStudent BUT...Avoid the teacher as publisher!

14. Interactive & Process © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009 Group project Compose Blog Comments RewritesBlogGraphics Comments Final Blog

15. Portal Faculty Portal A student blog A student group blog Another class’s blogs © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009

16. WHAT ELSE CAN WE THINK OF? © Perry Glasser 8/29/2009