Blogging has faced passive aggression from many journalists and the mainstream media crowd. In 2000, when I rather timidly brought blogs into my online publishing class as an example of simple, self-publishing software that I thought was useful, I had a student drop the class because "blogging wasn't journalism."
Blogging is just simple self-publishing, that archives your entries efficiently, and permits tagging and systematic searching. Really, it is just a database with a pretty face.
From t-ching, created 7/24/2006
Look at this list of statements. Do you agree or disagree with each one?
* Computers aren't technology
* The Internet is better than TV
* Reality is no longer real
* Doing is more important than knowing
* Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than logic
* Multitasking is a way of life
* Typing is preferred to handwriting
* Staying connected is essential
* There is zero tolerance for delays
* Consumer and creator are blurring
For most of your students, especially those born after 1981, these are agreeable truisms. For the students born after 1991, it would be silly to even question these statements.
For educators, most of whom were born before 1981 , these statements range from true to mistaken to signs of moral decay or weakness.
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Assigned originally on Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Blogging, FTP, and Basic Imaging
Blogging—the tool
http://www.blogger.com
Set up a blog.
Keep track of:
Username:
Password:
Blogname & url:
Try blogging your notes today in class. Our discussions indicate there is confusion between the tool to blog and the way the tool is being used. We will have some readings from the Nieman Foundation about the growing role of blog, the publishing tool, in Journalism. Keep in mind that other blogging software allows you to get comments and additions to your blog from viewer/users. Writing interactively can be as silly as a chatroom, but it can also represent a new kind of narrative, one which grips readers’ interest.
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To keep in mind about your students:
From t-ching, created 7/24/2006
Look at this list of statements. Do you agree or disagree with each one?
* Computers aren't technology
* The Internet is better than TV
* Reality is no longer real
* Doing is more important than knowing
* Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than logic
* Multitasking is a way of life
* Typing is preferred to handwriting
* Staying connected is essential
* There is zero tolerance for delays
* Consumer and creator are blurring
For most of your students, especially those born after 1981, these are agreeable truisms. For the students born after 1991, it would be silly to even question these statements.
For educators, most of whom were born before 1981 , these statements range from true to mistaken to signs of moral decay or weakness.
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the iterations of in-the-loop.colum.edu
http://in-the-loop.colum.edu/
simple, but he keeps it current http://christophercascarano.com/
Inactive blogs
Kia http://lunchtimewithkia.blogspot.com/
Carlos http://carlos2535.blogspot.com/
Kels http://theprincesspalace.wordpress.com/
Wilma http://damediaries.vox.com/
Gigi http://downndirtymusic.blogspot.com/
Beth http://web.mac.com/bethpalmer238/iWeb/looptopia%20tales/get%20loopy%20.html
Eric http://theremis.blogspot.com/
"stealth" blogs and writing:
http://xangie24x.livejournal.com/
http://www.luminomagazine.com/mw/content/view/2229/30
Upon consideration, blogging is not simply a journal. Blogging needs links. Links mean you are thinking in layers and essentially collaborating, though you may be collaborating without talking to another individual. Instead you are collaborating by creating a idea construct, that exists outside of your own work, between you and the places you link to.
This is a probably not a new form of thinking -- see Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" -- but it is new way of putting our thoughts into concrete form. It is a case where "typing is better than writing" because we copy/paste links to our new ideas so easily.
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