It's not far-fetched to suppose that anyone reading this blog isn't unfamiliar with what a blog "is." It is more far-fetched, however, to be focusing on writing blogs in a conventional composition course... at least, I hope I can make a claim like that. Blogging is a new way of engaging the world around us (well, a relatively new way - you can read here about the history of blogging), and understanding it, being aware of how to use it, and knowing how to write in this new genre, is increasingly important.
I hope you will check out the following student blogs and read about their discussions about technology and how they deal with it on a day-to-day basis. And keep checking back for updates!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
New Semester, New Blogs, New Textbook
Welcome to the Spring 2011 semester, and a new set of student blogs, ideas, and topics related to technology, media, and argument. This semester my students and I are using a brand new textbook, Argument!, by Erica Messenger, John Gooch, and Dorothy U. Seyler, which claims to be published in 2011 (that's what the copyright date says, though I'll swear to you I had in in my hands in December of 2010). Regardless, it's one of the most up-to-date texts regarding the nature of argument and persuasion, focusing on the "Age of Obama," or the up-and-coming digital youth that by now have not only mastered education by getting themselves here, to the University of Oklahoma and college-level academics, but have certainly mastered digital technology, social media (Web 2.0) and a host of other wonderfully gadget-y "stuff."
Thankfully I wasn't feeling too old when everyone laughed with me when I asked if they still had a Xanga (at least we all still know what a xanga is - and check that site out, it looks so different from what I remember!). I will admit it's strange to "show my age" by merely talking about how many AIM windows I used to have up to talk to my friends all at once, while I was "their age." Whew!
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