Blogs are kind of fun!
Dr. George Pullman teaches rhetoric and electronic writing at at GSU. I spoke to his class last year about weblogs. He already had a blog he had created himself. I like the way he incorporates technology in his classroom to help his students learn more about writing. He is not in the College of Ed so our paths don’t cross frequently so it was so neat today to come across a paper he had given at CW2003, Into the Blogosphere. He talks about having more positive experiences with online reading journals and blogs than with shout boxes, chat, threaded discussion lists, etc.
A good quote:
“I think all writers today should have some facility with learning new writing technologies and the blog is a pretty simple technology, from a user’s standpoint. But in the end it’s the genre of the blog itself that I think lends itself so well to writing pedagogy. It requires discipline, audience analysis, citation, external focus (writing as a public act) and sustained writing. It is alo brief, potentially multimedia, and kind of fun.”
There’s lots of good stuff in his paper. Now I say, hear, hear- let’s have more professors like Dr. Pullman!
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