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A presentation by Christopher P. Long

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

The College of the Liberal Arts

What is a Blog?

  • Chronologically Ordered
  • Frequently Updated
  • Most Recent at top
  • Posts and Comments
  • Publishing Platform

Publishing Platform

RSS: Real simple syndication

Two Models

  • Each Student with own blog
  • Feed to a common site
  • One blog, multiple authors
  • As if co-writing a single document

Rubric Driven: http://tinyurl.com/rubricblog

Blurring the Boundaries

Student

Teacher

Semester

Lifetime

Practice

Theory

World

Classroom

Diversity of Expression

Diversity of Fluencies

Empowers Student Engagement

Each is a publisher, not just a writer

Audience of one

becomes infinite audience

across time and space

Dynamic interaction among peers

cultivates community

Community voices amplify

Tag Driven Voices @ PSU

http://blogs.psu.edu/search/

The power of

The Pedagogy of Blogging

  • Always accessible to All
  • Continuing, Engaged Authoring
  • Dialogical via Commenting, podcasting, video
  • Fosters connections via links, embedding
  • Publishing to and from blog
  • One Post, multiple appearances
  • Writing - posts, comments
  • Speaking - podcasts
  • Images - pictures
  • Video - embedding, creating

Multiple Blogs

Common Course Blog

  • Fluency is more than literacy
  • "Reading" expands to Responding
  • "Writing" expands to Creating
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