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FocusGroups

  By GHink • August 29, 2014
Fri­day Class Activities

 

1. In-class writing:
  • Reflec­tion: dis­cuss one com­mu­nity prob­lem, civic con­cern, social issue
    — at present and in past experience.

  • fast­write: post on your blog (entry can be draft/saved and pri­vate if preferred)

 
 

2. Ideas for Group-Site Topics/Focus
  • Dis­cuss in class and post ideas pro­posed in com­ments here
    (ini­tial list, to add/modify over weekend)

 
 
 
 




 
 

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Blog Setup

  By GHink • August 26, 2014

For class:

 

    We will setup our blogs Wednes­day 27-Sept
    feel free to cre­ate, mod­ify, and update yours as soon as you’d like — instruc­tions below.

 

Once you cre­ate your blog, please post your link in a com­ment below.
*This is impor­tant so I have your URL! (to update the blogroll ASAP, as well)

    Note if you’d pre­fer your blog to be pri­vate,
    fol­low these instruc­tions — be sure to give me (and class­mates?) access

 

In your first entry (a “post,” not a com­ment), briefly intro­duce your­self: flex­i­ble para­me­ters for this, but please include your major and grade level, as well as any other writ­ing courses you’ve taken; your ratio­nale for (or inter­est in) tak­ing this course;
a recent/on-going social issue (com­mu­nity prob­lem, civic con­cern, etc.);
your idea (“work­ing def­i­n­i­tion”) of “net­work engage­ment”;
plus, any other inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion or media you’d like to share
(e.g. maybe a favorite image or video, meme from past or present? favorite or most-used “social media” platform?)

 

 

 Reg­is­ter @ WordPress
WP Sup­port site

 
 

Tech­ni­cal Instruc­tions for Blog Setup:

Click → Con­tinue reading

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Prelude

  By GHink • August 25, 2014

 

Wel­come, Fall 2014 stu­dents in New Media & Civic Engage­ment (WRTG 3020)!

As I will update this site reg­u­larly, be sure to check frequently—especially for posts amend­ing our class sched­ule.

 

There sev­eral ways to stay up-to-date with class using this blog (our course website):

    book­mark the main page; sub­scribe to the RSS feed (reader required); view course con­tent on your mobile or tablet (site opti­mized for lat­est mobile/touchscreen plat­forms); Sub­scribe (via your Word­Press account)

 

 

» Com­ing Soon:

  • Instruc­tions for set­ting up your blog.
  • Overview and detailed expla­na­tion about blog­ging — infor­mal entries address­ing class mate­r­ial and devel­op­ing ideas toward assignments.
  • Brief overview & instruc­tions, sup­ple­ment­ing class dis­cus­sion about media plat­forms

 

» Most imme­di­ately, closely review the syl­labus and sched­ule of read­ings and class sessions.

 

    Also, once you’ve reg­is­tered for Word­Press:
    please leave a com­ment below con­firm­ing that you’ve found and book­marked this site
    (while you’ll intro­duce your­self in your first post, this com­ment thread can be the extended “intro­duc­tion dis­cus­sion” from class as well)

 
 


The Inno­va­tion of Lone­li­ness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo.


 
 
 

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Audience

Aside

  By GHink • August 25, 2014 ,

 
 
 

» “Which ulti­mately does more good—an arti­cle or mono­graph that is read by 20 or 30 peo­ple in a very nar­row field, or a blog post on a topic of inter­est to many (such as grad­ing stan­dards or tenure require­ments) that is read by 200,000?

What if the post spurs hun­dreds of com­ments, is debated pub­licly in fac­ulty lounges and class­rooms, and gets picked up by news­pa­pers and Web sites across the country—in other words, it helps to shape the national debate over some hot-button issue? What is it worth then?”

What’s a Blog Post Worth?” By Rob Jenk­ins
August 8, 2013, 1:47 pm
The Chron­i­cle of Higher Education