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Entries from March 2007

Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs

March 29th, 2007 · No Comments

This week’s reading is a report addressing issues arising from teaching with blogs.  I’m guessing that you’ll find parts of it dense, and parts of it quite easy to follow.  Brooks et al.are pretty clear about their aims: ” Our goal in this paper is to bring some greater specificity to, and […]

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March 7: Surprise Field Trip!

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

I have never before changed a reading assignment in between class readings, but when I saw the announcement that comic creator and historian Scott McCloud will be speaking on campus during our class time next week, I couldn’t resist. Class will begin as usual at 6:00 in CA 237, and we’ll spend the first […]

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