Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Blogging (as) Experience

online writing | Posted by Gary Hink August 26th, 2009

 

(from syllabus)
Blog Entries
1 minimum per week, beginning week 2; (100-200 words. Credit/no credit assigned).
Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, preferably using Wordpress
Blog entries due Wednesday each week, starting week 2, unless otherwise noted (e.g. weeks 8 & 14).

 
Elaborating upon today’s class, specific suggestions for blogging below.
Note: more technical instructions for blogging coming soon (i.e. setup / “tech. support”) — need not create your blog until next week (over weekend?)

 
Also, optional / additional ideas:
as part of blogging, use Twitter, Facebook, or other social media (?).
More on this below — could be very interesting and unique approach!

 
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2.0 Students = Participants

online writing | Posted by Gary Hink August 24th, 2009

 

Timely and relevant (brief) interview on The Wired Campus blog today:

 
How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media.”
Marc Beja & S. Craig Watkins. Chronicle of Higher Education. 24 Aug 2009.

 
More on this soon, with some specific Qs / uses for our class…