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Friday, January 17, 2003 ( 1:48 PM ) Kevin This blogging thing probably seems abstract still, so let me give you an example of a typical entry. Yesterday, I heard a story on NPR about the "Lysistrata Project." The Lysistrata is a Greek play about women withholding sex from men until the men stop making war. A woman in New York is attempting to organize a day of Lysistrata readings, March 3, 2003, in order to protest America's impending war on Iraq. You should visit the Lysistrata Project website to get the whole story. Great example of "doing things with texts" -- maybe our class should support a campus reading on March 3? Anyone interested? Let me step back and explain why this is a typical weblog entry. #1 - it has a link, but it also summarizes the content of the link. Many bloggers try to give their readers enough info so that they don't have to follow the link if they don't want to. #2 - it has a second link to the "more substantial" site: I can't really summarize everything there for you, but if you skip link #1, you can get directly to the heart of the story. And if you don't follow either link, you've learned a little bit about The Lysistrata Project. ( 7:49 AM ) Kylee Just seeing if this works. Hi everyone... # ( 7:35 AM ) Kris ¿Cómo te llamas? # ( 7:30 AM ) Chris Ni Hao ma? # Sunday, January 12, 2003 ( 2:35 PM ) Kevin Now to start posting. What is a weblog, and why are we doing this? A weblog, in the early days of the internet, was simpy a website that collected links (perhaps with a little commentary) to the handful of other websites available at the time. In 1999, most veteran "bloggers" (someone who web-logs) say that the whole process of frequently updating websites with links to other sites took off. Many, many people were starting to spend time online everyday, and they were essential making their bookmarks public. Communities or readers and bloggers sprung up: many people jumped on the blogging bandwagon, others jumped off. Rebecca Blood's "history and perspective" is the standard introduction to weblogging. In the last two years, educators have been exploring the possibilities for weblogging as a classroom activity. The WebTools Newsletter dedicated to "Weblogs in Education" is the best place to start if you want to get an overview of weblog use in schools. I am asking you to give weblogging a try--see what you think of it. I thoroughly enjoy weblogging, and have found wonderful material on the web, but I have also found it very hard to post consistently. I will be interested to see what you find, whether or not this "space" seems like a good one to write in, and whether or not we develop a sense of community by sharing our links and ideas. Webloggin g is definitely an experiment: play with it, try it out, see if it will work for you. Feel free to set up an individual blog at any time. # |
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