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HASTAC Forum on Blogging and Tweeting Academia

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Blogging & Tweeting Academia--A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-16-09Blogging-Academia

Join HASTAC Scholars John Jones and Ramsey Tesdell in a discussion about blogging and tweeting in the academy today.

You.Niversity? A Review of Reconstruction's Special Issue: "Theories/Practices of Blogging"

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Amid what he calls "speculation and scuttlebutt" concerning blogging, Kevin Wiliarty finds a welcome antidote in this recently-published series of essays. True to the spirit of blogging, the contributions are diverse and international, covering a wide range of topics and disparate methodologies, from academic blogging, to blogging as a literary enterprise, to blogging in journalism and beyond. Wiliarty provocatively asks if more "effective usage of blogs is restricted, practical, and collaborative rather than public, expressive, and individual." 

Incorporating Blogging in a Free Speech Course: Lessons Learned

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David Reichard, like S. Raj Chaudhury, a CASTL (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Scholar, has carefully studied the effects of incorporating blogging in his "Free Speech and Responsibility" course. Not only did students blog, but they wrote essays analyzing their own and other students’ blogs: "These essays provided invaluable 'meta' analysis of student learning in the course. Significantly, students described blogs as providing a public record of their own learning, making their process as learners visible to themselves and others."
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