Publishing student writing online
Giving students the opportunity to write for online publication can help them think seriously about audience and purpose. One option is to ask students to write articles for a web site that welcomes user-submitted content designed to meet a particular goal. An example is eHow.com, which is a site that features articles and videos that contain instructions on how to do …
Read MoreUsing blogs in the writing classroom
Instructors use blogs in the classroom for a variety of purposes and in a wide range of ways. One common purpose is to present course materials, such as daily assignments, with each assignment in a new blog entry. Blog software makes this process very easy, with little to no knowledge of HTML required. Instructors can also set up their blogs so …
Read MoreViews: Teaching With Blogs – Inside Higher Ed
Interesting analysis of issues that come up when we ask students to blog: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/07/27/arvan
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I’m an instructor as well as the Digital Composition Coordinator for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder.
Most of my web design energies go towards my class web sites and sites for my PWR colleagues, so please pardon any mess you come across here!
