By Katt on Oct 21, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Simpson, Erik. “Threaded Discussion on the Internet and in the Classroom: Problems of Translation and an Approach to Emergence.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 36.2 (Autumn 2003): 32-39.
In “Threaded Discussion on the Internet and in the Classroom, Erik Simpson explores the reason behind a lack of student participation in threaded discussions required for [...]
By Katt on Sep 26, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Introduction
Chun’s introduction focuses on the ideas of control and power as they apply to the Internet. Examining Deleuze’s and Foucault’s ideas of control societies and the differences between control societies and disciplinary societies. Chun looks at the ways in which control and power, in the terms of the Internet, always relate to ideas of sexuality [...]
By Katt on Sep 2, 2007 in Blogging, First Year Composition (FYC), Rhetorical Red Tape, Student Privacy | 0 Comments
It has been almost a year now since I made my first presentation on blogging in the classroom. As I prepared for this presentation, I had several of my own professors telling me what a wonderful idea this was, how “new” and “innovative” it was, and that I was “on to something.” Now, before I [...]
