Takeaway Prep for Weblogs and Writing Pedagogy Presentation
I'm still preparing for Friday's presentation, and starting to stress about it, as I have several other deadlines this week. Clay's marvelous suggestion to put all projects in a spreadsheet is working wonders for me; I am a machine right now, knockin' it all out. Eh, not exactly, but I know I need to be making progress on this presentation, so here are some items I'm planning on including in the takeaway. I'm planning on doing ~100-word annotations of them, but one step at a time. These are some of the pieces on teaching with weblogs and wikis that have stood out in my mind over the last couple of years. In no particular order:
Weblogs
Falling out of love ... by premmell at Kairosnews
Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom by Charles Lowe and Terra Williams
Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs by Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe
(this) Space by Austin Lingerfelt
When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion, and Interaction by Steven D. Krause
Wikis
Wiki by Matt Barton
Embrace the Wiki Way! by Matt Barton
My Brilliant Failure: Wikis in Classrooms by Heather James
Posts on Kairosnews about Wikis
And, just for my own edification, a crash course on Writing Across the Curriculum:
I think the information on WAC will help me to create better "If your objective is ______, weblogs and/or wikis can help fulfill it by doing _____" statements. Any other thoughts? Your comments on my last post about this were very helpful!
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basics.
Hey, Clancy,
I did a little page on blogs this past spring for a class. It's basic info, which you may or may not be looking for. But if any of the text helps, feel free to borrow.
URL... http://marcoe.net/techupdate/
Good luck with your presentation. Who could know more?
-pma
good luck
Once again, I'm going to check out some of these links--I've read Krause's entry and I think it's a good, sensible balancing piece to use. Buried in midterm conferences, Joanna
Great List!
What a great set of writings. I think they read together well- almost like a text. -Sam
project management
I'm glad the spreadsheet thing is working out. I've been looking for some heavier-duty project management software for lab management, since the spreadsheet doesn't let me easily visualize projects or manage delegation well. I tested out these:
Project Manager X - http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmx/
Shareware; about $50 to purchase
xTime Project - http://www.appmac.com/software/xtime.html
About $129 (99 euros) to purchase
Both have their points, but I've decided to go with xTime because it's more mature and seems to have better import-export options and a more intuitive interface. HTH Clay
glad the suggestion was valua
glad the suggestion was valuable -- after trying several outliners and project management tools, I'm still using the spreadsheet too. I keep adding different tabs for different aspects -- cwrl, research, tenure ... cs