Student instructor Kathy Cowley describes why and how she is having her
students use blogging in her writing class at Brigham Young University.
Is blogging a legitimate kind of writing instruction? What are its
advantages and limits? Listen to the episode here (or subscribe to the podcast here).
In the podcast I quote from a paper Kathy wrote in which she quoted Rosa A. Eberly, "From Writers, Audiences, and Communities to Publics: Writing Classrooms as Protopublic Spaces." Rhetoric Review 18 (1999): 165-78. In our discussion Kathy also refers to Geoffrey Sirc's "Box-Logic." Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. 43-66.
Alright, now that I've finished listening to this one, I want to say that this was a really great episode and I evangelized it to all my fellow adjuncts at UVU on our department's blog.
I really enjoyed the discussion about blogging in the classroom. The only thing that I think would make the blogging stuff even more helpful would be if students could somehow vote on "best comments" that are made on the posts. (Similar to the Yahoo Answers format.) And maybe the vote of the author of the original post would count extra or something. That would encourage students to provide even more meaningful comments. I wonder if there's any kind of cool software out there that could do that...
Posted by: Alyssa | February 09, 2009 at 02:55 PM
I'm totally going to start listening as soon as I can figure out how to get stuff onto my new MP3 player. :)
Posted by: Alyssa | January 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM