tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211590263022168164.post5349677166414000254..comments2011-02-26T14:48:23.065-05:00Comments on If Kairos will serve us well...: Bryan A. Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09522712512905215419noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211590263022168164.post-75403978132852753942011-02-26T14:48:23.065-05:002011-02-26T14:48:23.065-05:00B,
I think you could do that. The blog will pose s...B,<br />I think you could do that. The blog will pose some limitations on design control, but will give you public access and the ability of readers to post comments. Your piece would still be longish, I assume. <br /><br />Before you plan to use a blog version for a conference, you need to confirm that computers with internet access and LCD projectors will be available. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes yes but you have to ask for it in advance and sometimes pay for it. If yes for CEAO or Cincinatti, then you can kill two birds. If computers and LCDs but no i-net, you might want to use PPT for the conference. <br /><br />In any case, if you want to still work this with an assignment for your class, you will need to rethink the assignment. <br /><br />I suggest not doing that. What I would do is just do an extensive blog or web site version of your conference piece from which you can select some for a short version to fit a 15 minute slot. So the project for our course would be a multimodal essay based on your conference topic with a reflection essay on doing that. <br /><br />--ARalbertoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02269923452748119886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211590263022168164.post-23920396440681276742011-02-25T14:37:59.487-05:002011-02-25T14:37:59.487-05:00I don't know what I would do without you. The ...I don't know what I would do without you. The Queer essay is 28 pages, which is probably too long for a blog. Your insight has been invaluable for gauging the scope of what I can do. <br /><br />So to make sure I understand, could I prepare my conference proposal as a blog essay? And then revise my assignment based upon what I discover? Of course I would have to reevaluate my audience, but that does seem more practical. <br /><br />I seem to consistently overestimate the practicality/expectations of these assignments. I just hope it is apparent that I am willing to put in lots of work to accomplish what I want. Does this sound better?<br /><br />Thanks again for keeping me grounded.Bryan A. Lutzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09522712512905215419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211590263022168164.post-71127094545282341052011-02-25T11:31:17.807-05:002011-02-25T11:31:17.807-05:00Byran,
At this stage, I suggest you take a little ...Byran,<br />At this stage, I suggest you take a little time to consider your options. I have no problem with your proposed project. However, given your seminar article presentation and your possible conference presentation, you might consider focusing on a multimodal piece on that that could serve multiple purposes--the basis of the presentation and an example of multimodal argument/analysis for your students. <br /><br />That said, it's up to you which one you go with. The Queer pedagogy essay sounds good and the goal of testing out how to get public blogs involved with student blogs and vice versa sounds worthy. If you do that, you'll need to revise the assignment along the way and reflect on the process, what you changed and learned etc. Keep in mind that blogs allow multimodality (sound and video, images, links, font color and size alterations, and so on), but are very limited in terms of controlling the design. This sounds like a reasonable trade-off for the purposes of the assignment revision because the emphasis is public engagement. <br /><br />Per that--One thing students will find out in engaging public blogs is that large arguments are not posted on them. If you want students to engage in genuine blog discourse, you'll want to take that into account. Maybe they should set up a blog and post shorter arguments regularly, engage other bloggers outside the course on the topic by commenting and hopefully receiving comments, and then write a substantial reflection essay on it. That could be posted too, as they would want to at least include links. <br /><br />Just some ideas to think on. . .albertoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02269923452748119886noreply@blogger.com